🇺🇸🇸🇻 Will Trump OUTSOURCE US prisoners to El Salvador?

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail US deportees and violent criminals—including American citizens. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the proposal "unprecedented and extraordinary."

🔍 What’s in the Proposal?

▪️Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele calls it "outsourcing" part of the US prison system

▪️El Salvador would accept only convicted criminals

▪️US deportees and criminals would be held in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in Tecoluca

▪️Bukele seeks a "fee" from the US, calling it "relatively low" for Washington but enough to sustain El Salvador’s prison system

🔍 What is the CECOT?

▪️A 23-hectare mega-prison built in 2022 and opened in January 2023 amid a gang crackdown

▪️Built at a cost of $115 million

▪️Can hold 40,000 inmates but housed just 14,500 as of August 2024, potentially leaving room for US prisoners

▪️El Salvador has a history of human rights abuses, harsh prison conditions and torture

🔍 Is it legal to send US citizens to El Salvador?

▪️Trump said: “If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat”

▪️ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told NPR that deporting US citizens would be unconstitutional

▪️The US could hypothetically deport non-nationals to a third country, but it would require complex legal steps

▪️Human rights groups warn that sending prisoners to El Salvador would raise serious concerns

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🗣 NATO wants to paralyze the work of Russian ports in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions, said the chairman of the country's Maritime Collegium Nikolai Patrushev.

The West is trying to prevent Russia from using maritime transport communications, creating risks for the safety of shipping and people's lives, Patrushev said.

In response to the dangerous actions of the West in the maritime sphere, Russia is creating its own analog of a mobile satellite communications system for the navy, the chairman added.

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🇫🇷🇷🇺 French journalist convicted over claims against Macron’s wife SUPPORTS Russia’s policy

"I love this country very much ... I respect [Russian President] Vladimir Putin very much and support Russian policy. And [State Duma lawmaker] Pyotr Tolstoy speaks excellent French, and I agree with him when he talks about the decline of the West. So, you understand why between the United States and Russia, my soul is inclined towards Russia," Natacha Rey told Sputnik.

Previously, the journalist said she was going to file a lawsuit against the French First Lady for forgery. Rey also said she was seeking political asylum in Russia due to fears of renewed persecution for communicating with the Russian press.

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📹 Russian intelligence to patriotic Americans: 'Honor does matter'

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📹 Trump reveals how assassination attempt CHANGED him

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Where did a large-scale FRAUD with US taxpayers' money take place?

Just over 2% of the more than $4.4 billion allocated by the US agency USAID for Haiti has actually reached the country, findings published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research show.

▪️Fifty-six percent of the funds were deposited in companies based in Maryland, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C. area, while 41% went to "other" organizations.

▪️At the same time, neither US taxpayers nor Haitians can track exactly how the aid was spent or whether it had any real impact on the situation in the country.

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📹🔥 Easy tip: don't even try to attack Russian land

WATCH Russian drones destroy Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles as part of Kiev's failed counteroffensive in Russia's Kursk region.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 Top Israeli official posts photo of pager Israel's PM gave Trump as memento of operation against Lebanon's Hezbollah

"The pager symbolizes the prime minister's decision that led to a turnaround in the war and the starting point for breaking the spirit of the terrorist organization Hezbollah," an adviser to Netanyahu's office said in a statement on X.

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🇵🇱🤥 First world problem? Polish president Duda whines about his future $3K monthly retirement pay

"This is not such a large sum, taking into account all the responsibility that has been imposed all these years," he said.

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📹 BlackRock can play KEY role in Trump's overtaking of Gaza - analyst

"BlackRock’s vast assets make it a likely player in a potential Donald Trump-led Gaza reconstruction, given its history in infrastructure, post-conflict projects, and alignment with Israel and US policy interests", George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, told Sputnik.

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💰 ‘State-run’ Western media: How much did they get from Team Biden?

USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 ‘media’ NGOs including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine, WikiLeaks says.

Previously, Elon Musk has hit out at the previous US administration over wasting HEFTY sums on mass media. Which news outlets are on the list and how much was spent on them? Have a look:

🔺The Associated Press

▪️2024: around $1.2 million
▪️2023: more than $4 million
▪️2022: more than $3 million
▪️2021: about $3 million

🔺The New York Times

▪️2024: $4.1 million
▪️2023: about $2 million
▪️2022: about $2 million
▪️2021: nearly $3 million

🔺Politico

▪️2021: about $700,000
▪️2022: about $700,000
▪️2023: almost $600,000
▪️2024: about $8.1 million

🔺The BBC

▪️2024: more than $3 million
▪️2023: more than $3 million
▪️2022: about $1.5 million
▪️2021: about $1 million

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📹🇹🇷 See how Turkiye RECOVERS from 2023 deadly earthquake

The magnitude 7.8 quake devastated Turkiye’s eastern regions, killing over 53,000 people and injuring over 107,000.

On this tragic date, the office of the governor of Hatay, one of the provinces most seriously affected by this disaster, released a video that allows viewers to assess both the extent of the disaster and the government’s reconstruction efforts.

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❗️🪖 Ukraine’s attempt to launch counteroffensive in Russia’s Kursk Region THWARTED

The Russian Defense Ministry offers some details concerning the operation:

▪️Ukrainian troops carried out eight waves of attacks in the direction of the settlements of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Ulanok

▪️Units of the ‘Sever’ battlegroup are conducting mop-up operations in areas where scattered enemy groups remain

▪️Ukrainian forces suffered over 200 personnel losses and lost around 50 pieces of weaponry and military equipment

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