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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi briefly stopped to answer reporters’ questions outside of the White House on Tuesday, but she floundered then fled when challenged on the hundreds of immigrants the Trump administration shipped to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
When asked about the “60 Minutes” report revealing that 75% of the men illegally deported to the maximum security CECOT prison have no known criminal record, Bondi delivered a bizarre rant in response.
“Well, they’re not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country, who are committing the most violent crimes,” Bondi began. “So if you committed a murder in our country, we're going to keep you here and we're going to seek the death penalty, and we're going to keep you in prison because our victims’ families deserve that,” she said, contradicting the administration’s repeated claims of deporting only the most violent criminals.
“But we don't have to charge them with average crime,” Bondi added nonsensically. “We can deport them and get them out of our country and save room in our prisons, because they should have never been in our country to begin with.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/8/2315370/-Pam-Bondi-melts-down-over-questions-about-deportation-of-innocent-men

lindysalsagal
(22,658 posts)2naSalit
(96,485 posts)In Florida, perhaps they have reach - I mean - work arounds for some of the special ones.
msongs
(71,119 posts)a kennedy
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underpants
(190,043 posts)Prosecutor: Average crime
Judge: What say ye?
Defendant: What? I don’t even know what Average crime is.
Judge: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. GUILTY! (gavel). Next?
Prosecutor (nods towards the next defendant in the long line): Average crime
Judge: So…hmm… you too huh?
struggle4progress
(122,818 posts)Johonny
(23,404 posts)75 percent of these men have no criminal record. So are these men, smarter criminals than our president? Is that what she is saying?
Botany
(73,897 posts)So exactly where and when did this illegal immigrate commit “the murder which will need
the death penalty” happen? And who was killed? Where is the body? And who was the murderer?
This would be struck down in court in a heartbeat because you are not allowed to present hypothetical
arguments. Btw I am not a lawyer.
maxsolomon
(36,378 posts)You may have heard about her in every Repuke campaign commercial that wasn't about the threat of Transwomen.
He got life in prison, though, not the death penalty.
regnaD kciN
(26,977 posts)…as in “the Wicked Witch of the West.”