MSNBC’s Wallace claims she’s ‘gutted’ over Trump deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador

MSNBC big Nicolle Wallace expressed sorrow connected Tuesday implicit the Trump medication deporting alleged Tren de Aragua pack members to El Salvador.

During a caller occurrence of "The Bulwark" podcast, Wallace mentioned the deportations arsenic the happening that frightened her astir astir President Donald Trump’s 2nd term, saying she was "gutted" erstwhile seeing a photograph of alleged pack members being housed successful a situation successful El Salvador.

"I saw the paid ads that Homeland Security was doing successful beforehand of the deportees who were present prisoners astatine CECOT [Terrorism Confinement Center] and I was gutted," she told big Tim Miller. 

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MSNBC big Nicolle Wallace claimed she feels "gutted" implicit alleged Tren de Aragua pack members being deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration. (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Image)

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act successful March to expedite deportations of suspected Tren de Aragua pack members, invoking choler from critics who person said determination is insufficient grounds to find 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 successful El Salvador are "actually terrorists, quality rights abusers, gangsters, and more" and that the medication is abiding by owed process.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said successful March, "I spot our quality agencies and the quality individuals that are wrong the Department of Homeland Security, that the individuals who are determination are members and a portion of this enactment and person worked with them."

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Seventeen members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua pack and members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the US successful San Salvador, El Salvador connected March 31, 2025. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele confirmed they volition beryllium sent to the country's infamous mega-prison astatine CECOT installation prison. San Salvador forces took dense information measures.  (El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The deportation attack has faced ineligible challenges. The U.S. Supreme Court barred the Trump medication from deporting migrants without them being fixed a accidental to situation their designations arsenic transgression pack members successful April, and extended that bid successful May. 

During the interview, Wallace denied determination was immoderate grounds whether the radical Trump had been trying to deport were pack members.

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"I retrieve the archetypal time I work astir the deportations to El Salvador of the alleged Tren de Aragua members — for whom nary grounds was ever presented that they had thing to bash with Tren de Aragua," she said. "And I retrieve saying…  like ‘I privation I didn’t consciousness truthful gutted. And I privation I could halt reasoning astir these guys being frightened successful El Salvador.’"

After mentioning feeling unspeakable astir seeing the photos that DHS posted of suspected pack members being held astatine CECOT, the MSNBC big accused the medication of mistreating quality beings.

"And I deliberation I’m sometimes frightened by however overmuch anguish I consciousness implicit however they’re treating quality beings. But I deliberation that if you wantonness the anguish, past you transportation retired horrible things against quality beings," Wallace said, adding, "I’m frightened astir however overmuch it bothers maine — that truthful galore radical are suffering."

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When asked for comment, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital, "Cry more, Nicole Wallace. Only a TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] whack occupation would beryllium ‘gutted’ that amerciable transgression terrorists are being removed from the state but neglect to notation the American victims of these heinous criminals."