El Salvador Offers To House Violent U.S. Criminals and Deportees
El Salvador has extended an unprecedented offer to the United States: to take in deportees and violent criminals of any nationality. The announcement came from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday following a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
“In an act of extraordinary friendship to our county,” Rubio told reporters, Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.”
Under the proposed agreement, El Salvador will continue accepting its own citizens who have been deported from the United States. However, Bukele also pledged to “accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Agua and house them in his jails,” Rubio said.
That includes “dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio added.
While the latter part of the proposal remains legally questionable, El Salvador could be part of a “safe third country” agreement, under which the U.S. could deport migrants to El Salvador when their home countries refuse them.
Bukele’s aggressive crackdown on crime has made him a controversial yet admired figure. President Donald Trump called El Salvador an “example” for other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Once considered one of the most dangerous nations in Central America, El Salvador has transformed into one of the region’s safest under Bukele’s administration.
Since declaring a state of emergency over gang violence in March 2022, the government has jailed over 81,000 alleged gang member
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