Maximum Security Prison to be built by France

France Copies Trump, Builds ‘Supermax’ Prison Overseas

In a surprising move certain to please President Trump and his MAGA supporters, France plans to build a maximum-security prison for drug traffickers and radical Islamists in its overseas territory of French Guiana.

While Democrats like Chris van Hollen and foreign critics have bashed Trump’s effort to send deported illegal alien criminals to foreign countries such as El Salvador, to house them in maximum security prisons there, it seems this major European ally is doing something very similar.

Though unlike Trump’s deal where — for now — only illegal alien criminals deported from the U.S. are sent to a foreign prison, French Guiana belongs to France, and its much smaller prison in the Amazon jungle will house French criminals.

It still significantly echoes the Trump effort.

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