{"id":26592,"date":"2025-02-11T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26592"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:29:07","slug":"sen-ossoff-blasts-trump-proposal-to-send-american-citizens-to-prisons-in-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-blasts-trump-proposal-to-send-american-citizens-to-prisons-in-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Blasts Trump Proposal to Send American Citizens to Prisons in El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2013\u2013 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is blasting President Trump\u2019s proposal to send American citizens to prisons in El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Sen. Ossoff pressed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to reject an offer to imprison American citizens and legal residents in El Salvador\u2019s dangerous prison system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, President Trump said he would send American citizens in prisons \u201cin a heartbeat,\u201daccording to The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI write to urge that the Trump Administration immediately and unequivocally reject Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele\u2019s reported offer to imprison U.S. citizens and legal residents in El Salvador,\u201dSen. Ossoff wrote to the Trump Administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an ABC News report<\/a> earlier this month, Secretary Rubio expressed that the Trump Administration is \u201cprofoundly grateful\u201d for President Bukele\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven entertaining this offer suggests a potential abandonment of core legal and ethical principles that protect the human and civil rights of Americans and others subject to U.S. jurisdiction,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2023 U.S. State Department report<\/a>, people incarcerated in El Salvador\u2019s prison system are subjected to “harsh and life-threatening prison conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect the rights of American citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Sens. Ossoff and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced<\/a> the bipartisan Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act<\/em>, which would require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to mitigate inmate-on-staff sexual assault in Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities and help end sexual abuse in prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock urged<\/a> Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) Commissioner Tyrone Oliver to promptly address the deeply concerning findings in the DOJ\u2019s report last month on Georgia\u2019s state prison system, which found conditions in Georgia\u2019s prisons \u201cviolate the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, President Biden signed into law<\/a> Sen. Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan Federal Prison Oversight Act<\/em>, historic prison reform legislation to overhaul independent oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prison\u2019s 122 facilities nationwide by mandating routine inspections of all facilities by the DOJ Inspector General and establishing a new Ombudsman to investigate the health, safety, welfare, and rights of incarcerated people and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s inquiry with the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2013\u2013 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is blasting President Trump\u2019s proposal to send American citizens to prisons in El Salvador. Today, Sen. Ossoff pressed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to reject an offer to imprison American citizens and legal residents in El Salvador\u2019s dangerous prison system. Last week, President Trump […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26592","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26594,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26592\/revisions\/26594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}