Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Donald Trump expressing interest in deporting US citizens to El Salvador

The US president is in no rush to reverse the wrongful deportation of a man to Central America.

Donald Trump has been meeting with the president of El Salvador at the White House.

Despite a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the US must allow for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return, both leaders are batting away calls.

Abrego Garcia entered the US illegally in 2011, but in 2019 an immigration judge withheld his removal due to threats in his home country.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Donald Trump has expressed interest in deporting US citizens who are considered violent criminals to El Salvador - which has sparked further concerns.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And finally, a Fox News host has tried to teach
Donald Trump a little bit of Spanish.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mister President, I'd like to teach you how to say
let's make America great again in Spanish.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
So almost at that America Grande, US President gave it
his best shop, but didn't quite manage the whole lot.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
America grande or traves I.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Mean to speak fair to him, she did say pretty fast.
So let's listen to one more time and then we're
all going to try it.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Almost at that America Grande.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah cool, okay, go on, Dan. Dan Mitchison US corresponding,
you do it?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
No no, no, no, no, no no. My wife speaks it,
my daughter speaks it. I'm not even going to give
it a go welcome back.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Thanks very much, Dan. Why do they speak it but
you don't speak it? And do they speak it behind you,
back in front of you?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
They don't, And that's the that's the frustrating thing. My
wife speaks it so well, my daughter does, to even
my son. Nobody wants to speak it. When we go
out to public or to a to a Mexican restaurant,
or when we're down in the southern part of Mexico,
so it is kind of us.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, they speaking to.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Nobody, They just wanted to learn another language.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
To speaking inside to themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah yeah, basically, yeah, you don't use.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It, you're gonna lose it, exactly. Okay, Now, this business
with sending the homegrowns to L. Salvador, is he serious
about it?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well? Yeah, I think so. I mean, that's what he
said to the president of L. L Salvador, who he
spoke with yesterday at the at the White House, and
he's still talking about it today. He says they'd have
to build five more places to hold all the new arrivals.
And you know, he's talked about this now and he
being in President Trump and he says these would be
violent people. But I think this would be a big

(01:39):
I mean, he can talk about it, but this would
be a huge violation of our constitution and a huge
violation for the administration is sent anybody that was born
here forcibly to a prison overseas. So it is it is.
In fact, the president signed up a law of his
own during his first term saying that you can't do this.

(02:00):
So I don't know he would why he would go
back on it.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, was this Donald Trump. Now is this I mean,
is he actually The thing with Donald Trump that we
understand is we can't get upset about absolutely everything that
comes out of the man's mouth right until he actually
does it. So is he actually going to do it?
Or is this just half air?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
No? I think this is just hot air. You know,
like a lot of people have said, for every twenty
thirty forty things that he says, maybe one or two
will actually go through. But he just likes to put
things out there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, what about Joe Biden. Not a lot has changed,
is it.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, it hasn't. I mean, he's been kind of out
of the spotlight since Donald Trump stepped into office. And
he gave a speech just a short time ago to
the National Conference of Advocates for the Disabled in Chicago.
A lot of the remarks were prepared. He kind of
went off script a few times, rambled, He always spoke
for about thirty minutes or so. He was really there
to warn people the President Trump's trying to take away

(02:53):
social Security. President Trump says he has no plan to
do that. The White House saying, you know, this was
feeble Joe Biden trying to speak, and you know it
was hard to understand some of what he was saying
during his appearance tonight, which is why I think he
said he will probably continue to keep a low profile,
and if we hear much from him in the future,
it'll probably be about his presidential library or you know,

(03:13):
when he comes out with the book that every former president.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Seems to Yeah, okay, it doesn't look like everything's going
okay there. By the way, what's going on with the
weed in California is the buzz died?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, it kind of has you know, four twenties coming up,
which I think this year happens to fall on Easter,
so that's what's going to be coming. Four twenties, the
code name for marijuana.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, I know, you said four twenties coming up.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
What is April twentieth, which is just a few days,
so that'll be that'll be Easter Sunday, and that'll also
be basically pot Day. So yeah, you better watch what
you get in your Easter basket. I guess this year.
But you know, it used to be you just had
the hippies puffing away. Yeah, yeah, that was Yeah, never

(03:59):
mind that you used to have the hippie smoking on
the on the pot.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
What are you feeling bad, are you? Dan? Are you
right now feeling bad for insinuating that somebody is going
to give me a joint in my east a package?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
No. I could tell you that there would be a
lot more happy people if they probably had something that
was cannabis related in their easter basket and this pure sugar.
But the buzz has kind of worn off here. And
I mean the whole point of this was it was
illegal at one time, then they legalized it. They were
hoping to get all this this extra money here for
public programs in California. It's a multi billion dollar industry

(04:32):
of course at US here, but it just hasn't generated
the tax money. And I think businesses are finding out
that people can get it elsewhere for a lot cheaper,
and there's there's actually too much pot out there.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well this is true. Hey, thanks very much, Dan, really
appreciate it. Dan Mitchinson. Now you is correspond For more
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