El Salvador agrees to accept US deportees of any nationality following meeting with Rubio

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for amerciable immigrants – of immoderate nationality – facing deportation successful the U.S. to beryllium booked successful his country's situation strategy successful speech for a fee.

This connection comes aft Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Bukele astatine his lakeside state location extracurricular San Salvador connected Monday.

"We person offered the United States of America the accidental to outsource portion of its situation system," Bukele wrote connected X Monday night. "We are consenting to instrumentality successful lone convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) successful speech for a fee. The interest would beryllium comparatively debased for the U.S. but important for us, making our full situation strategy sustainable."

Rubio said the Salvadoran president "has agreed to the astir unprecedented, extraordinary, bonzer migratory statement anyplace successful the world."

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele astatine his residence astatine Lake Coatepeque connected Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP)

"We tin nonstop them, and helium volition enactment them successful his jails," Rubio told reporters, referring to amerciable immigrants down bars successful U.S. prisons. "And, he’s besides offered to bash the aforesaid for unsafe criminals presently successful custody and serving their sentences successful the United States, adjacent though they’re U.S. citizens oregon ineligible residents."

While Bukele did widen the connection to see convulsive American criminals, it is highly improbable that portion of the connection would really happen, since it is amerciable to deport U.S. citizens. A U.S. authoritative said the Trump medication has nary plans to deport American citizens, but noted that Bukele's connection was significant.

The connection with El Salvador, known arsenic a "safe 3rd country" agreement, could perchance beryllium an enactment for Venezuelan pack members convicted successful the U.S. if Venezuela refuses to judge them, and Rubio said Bukele offered to judge detainees of immoderate nationality.

Bukele besides said helium would instrumentality backmost each Salvadoran MS-13 pack members successful the U.S. illegally, and promised to judge and incarcerate transgression amerciable aliens from immoderate country, particularly those affiliated with Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang.

Manuel Flores, the caput wide of the leftist absorption enactment Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, argued that the "safe 3rd country" program would overgarment the portion arsenic the U.S. government's "backyard to dump the garbage."

TRUMP ANNOUNCES VENEZUELA WILL TAKE CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BACK

Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele astatine his residence astatine Lake Coatepeque successful El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP)

Rubio was visiting El Salvador to propulsion for much assistance successful supporting President Donald Trump's wide deportation plan. He arrived successful San Salvador soon aft watching a U.S.-funded deportation formation carrying 43 amerciable immigrants permission from Panama for Colombia.

The deportation formation had 32 men and 11 women detained by Panamanian authorities aft illegally crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia. The State Department said the deportations nonstop a connection of deterrence.

"Mass migration is 1 of the large tragedies successful the modern era," Rubio said afterward. "It impacts countries passim the world. We admit that galore of the radical who question wide migration are often victims and victimized on the way, and it’s not bully for anyone."

Rubio is astir fractional mode done with his Central America circuit aft Monday's sojourn to El Salvador. (AP)

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Rubio's travel comes during a sweeping frost connected U.S. overseas assistance and stop-work orders that person unopen down taxpayer-funded programs targeting amerciable migration and transgression successful Central America. The State Department said that the caput had approved waivers for definite captious programs successful countries helium is visiting.

The caput volition proceed to impulse overseas leaders to bash much to assistance the U.S. combat amerciable immigration, including successful his adjacent stops successful Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, which are portion of his five-nation Central American circuit pursuing the visits to Panama and El Salvador.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.