Fox News host fantasizes about making American prisons like El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center
Ainsley Earhardt: “If we did that here in America, maybe the crime would go down even more”
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From the April 15, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): If you just take a step back for a second, the president's done something that I don't even think he thought he was able to do. In four months, he's gotten the border crossings down 99%. He's able to get thousands of illegal immigrants and deport them out of the country, round them up, locate them, at the same time tackle some of the immigrants, ungrateful immigrants on our campuses. So you might say, OK. This is a story in Maryland. Do you want to talk about this? Where the Justice Department had an attorney that said that you shouldn't be sent back. Pam Bondi said he was wrong. We suspended him. But having said that, yeah, it's a story. But the bigger story is what has happened with illegal immigration in America. We have shut down the border. We're building the wall. We're putting concertina wire on our side of the wall. So when they jump, if they're going to jump, they're going to get a chest full of razors. So what has happened on every aspect is unbelievable, along with checking everyone's immigration status, hidden from all angles. This is a story, but the bigger story, nobody seems to want to talk about it.
AINSLEY EARHADT (CO-HOST): Yeah. Could you imagine if our prisons were like the one in El Salvador where you're in shackles, it's a harsh prison. So if we would — and look what's happening in El Salvador. They love this president down there because he has made it so much safer. You talk to anyone who is here from El Salvador, and they will say, when we go back home, it is so much safer.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): Right.
EARHARDT: They would bring money from America, and people would shake them down for that money. People who are working here legally or here citizens, they send money back home, and then their parents are in jeopardy. They have lived in poor conditions because if they show that they're getting money from their daughter who works in America, then they're at risk, but not anymore. The neighborhoods are cleaned up because of this president. So, and it's because if you get caught doing something illegally down there, you're thrown in these maximum security prisons.
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Right.
EARHARDT: And you're treated the way that you see in these videos. If we did that here in America, maybe the crime would go down even more.