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US President Donald Trump wants to open Alcatraz again. The notorious former “Jail The last instance “on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco was closed in 1963 due to infrastructure problems and high operating costs. The former prison was converted into a museum. And made open to the public in 1973.
Truth social announcement: criminals should be “shielded” again
“For too long, America has been plagued by malignant, violent and declining criminals. The scum of society. Scum, which will never bring anything other than misery and suffering”, wrote Trump in a post On his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday evening. “When we were even more serious nation, we have not hesitated in the past to lock the most dangerous criminals. And to keep them away from everyone who could harm them. That’s how it should be.”
Background: dispute over Kilmar Abrego Garcia
“For this reason, today I today indicate the Bureau of Prisons together with the Ministry of Justice, the FBI and the Ministry of Homeland to reopen a significantly enlarged and converted Alcatraz. They are supposed to accommodate America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”
His announcement to reopen Alcatraz is followed by his examination of courts. Including the Supreme Court. His government refuses to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back, which was deported in March in a violation of an “expulsion ban”. This decision prohibits its deportation to the Central American country. But he was illegally deported from Maryland into a notorious mega prison in El Salvador. Trump even went so far to explain that he would “love” to send American criminals together with suspected gang members and immigration prisoners to the prison in El Salvador.
Justice system under fire – Trump against procedural rights
In his contribution on Sunday evening, he criticized the American judicial system. Because it adheres to the principles of a decent procedure. “We will no longer leave ourselves hosted by criminals, rackets and judges who are afraid to do their work. And to allow ourselves to show criminals that have come into our country illegally,” he wrote. “The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law, order and justice. We will make America big again!”
Official reaction and criticism of the symbolic character
Trump said reporters on Sunday evening that “radicalized judges”, who insisted that deported people receive a decent procedure, had brought him up to reopen Alcatraz. He denotes Alcatraz loudly Associated Press as a “symbol of law and order”. “You know it has a long story.”
A spokesman for the Bureau of Prison said in a statement APthat the authority ‘will meet all orders of the President’.