MSNBCs Nicole Wallace claims shes gutted over Trump deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the Trump administration deporting alleged Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador.During a recent episode of “The Bulwark” podcast, Wallace mentioned the deportations as the thing that scared her most about President Donald Trump’s second term, saying she was “gutted” when seeing a photo of alleged gang members being housed in a prison in El Salvador.“I saw the paid ads that Homeland Security was doing in front of the deportees who were now prisoners at CECOT [Terrorism Confinement Center] and I was gutted,” she told host Tim Miller. President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to expedite deportations of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, invoking anger from critics who have said there is insufficient evidence to determine their ties to the gang.The Department of Homeland Security has defended the deportations, with DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin saying that the migrants sent to CECOT in El Salvador are “actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters, and more” and that the administration is abiding by due process.DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in March, “I trust our intelligence agencies and the intelligence individuals that are within the Department of Homeland Security, that the individuals who are there are members and a part of this organization and have worked with them.”The deportation approach has faced legal challenges.The US Supreme Court barred the Trump administration from deporting migrants without them being given a chance to challenge their designations as criminal gang members in April, and extended that order in May. During the interview, Wallace denied there was any evidence whether the people Trump had been trying to deport were gang members.“I remember the first day I read about the deportations to El Salvador of the alleged Tren de Aragua members — for whom no evidence was ever presented that they had anything to do with Tren de A...