Magaziner Statement on Trump Refusal to Follow Supreme Court Ruling and Threat to Send U.S. Citizens to Foreign Prisons

WARWICK, RI – U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Ranking Member of the Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee on the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s press conference.

"I am outraged. Today President Trump refused to follow a Supreme Court order to return a man who was erroneously sent by his administration without due process to a prison in El Salvador. He also stated his intention to send US citizens to foreign prisons as well.

Trump is risking a constitutional crisis rather than follow a Supreme Court order to release a person imprisoned by accident. This cannot stand.”