El Salvador Offers to Hold ‘dangerous’ US Citizens and Criminal Migrants from Any Country in Their Hellhole ‘mega-prison’; Rubio Says El Salvador Will Take Deportees from U.S. of Any Nationality
El Salvador offers to hold ‘dangerous’ US citizens and criminal migrants from any country in their hellhole ‘mega-prison’:
The president of El Salvador on Monday offered to house convicted US citizens in his country’s “mega-prison” and take in deported criminal illegal migrants of any nationality after a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio, 53, said the deal struck with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele represents “the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” in remarks from the capital city of San Salvador.
“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” the secretary of state said of migrants set to be deported from the US. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”
Bukele, 43, indicated that he will charge the US a “relatively low” fee if it decides to use his nation’s notorious 40,000-person-capacity maximum-security prison.
“We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” Bukele wrote on X.
“We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee,” he added. “The fee would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
El Salvador’s Center for the Confinement of Terrorism is one of the largest prisons in Latin America.
Photos released by the government of El Salvador last year showed prison guards in riot gear moving shirtless, heavily tattooed inmates around the facility, where groups of detainees appear to be housed together in cramped cells.
President Trump suggested in a speech to House Republicans last week that he was keen on removing “violent criminals” and “repeat offenders” from the country, and not necessarily only those in the country illegally. —>READ MORE HERE
Rubio says El Salvador will take deportees from U.S. of any nationality:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.
“He’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents,” Rubio said. He had just met with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours.
After Rubio spoke, a U.S. official said the Trump administration had no current plans to try to deport American citizens, but said Bukele’s offer was significant. The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with significant legal challenges.
Rubio was visiting El Salvador to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for a major crackdown on immigration amid turmoil in Washington over the status of the government’s main foreign development agency.
He arrived in San Salvador shortly after watching a U.S.-funded deportation flight with 43 migrants leave from Panama for Colombia. That came a day after Rubio delivered a warning to Panama that unless the government moved immediately to reduce or eliminate China’s presence at the Panama Canal, the U.S. would act to do so.
Migration, though, was the main issue of the day, as it will be for the next stops on Rubio’s five-nation Central American tour of Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic after Panama and El Salvador.
President Donald Trump’s administration prioritizes stopping people from making the journey to the United States and has worked with regional countries to boost immigration enforcement on their borders as well as to accept deportees from the United States.
The agreement Rubio described for El Salvador to accept foreign nationals arrested in the United States for violating U.S. immigration laws is known as a “safe third country” agreement. That would mean the U.S. could deport non-Salvadorean migrants to El Salvador.
Officials have suggested this might be an option for Venezuelan gang members convicted of crimes in the United States should Venezuela refuse to accept them, but Rubio said Bukele’s offer was for detainees of any nationality. —>READ MORE HERE
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