El Salvador offers to house ‘American criminals,’ deportees: Rubio
by Filip Timotija - 02/04/25 8:20 AM ET
El Salvador has offered to house criminals who are American citizens and deportees of other nationalities, according to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio said late Monday that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer is “the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.”
The comments came after he met with the country’s leadership.
Rubio traveled to El Salvador, part of his tour through Central America and the Caribbean to drum up support for President Trump’s immigration agenda, which the administration said will include mass deportations.
“He has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said Monday, according to the State Department readout. “No country’s ever made an offer of friendship such as this.”
El Salvador will keep accepting Salvadorans who are living in the U.S. illegally, along with international criminal gangs MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, both of which have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by Trump.
more:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5124897-marco-rubio-el-salvador-american-criminals-deportees/