El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegal immigrants – of every nationality – confronted with deportation in the US to be booked in exchange for compensation in the prison system of his country.
This proposal comes after the State Secretary Marco Rubio Meet Bukele on Monday in his country house outside San Salvador on Monday.
“We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of his prison system,” Bukele wrote on X on Monday evening. “We are willing to include only convicted criminals (including convicted American citizens) in our mega prison in exchange for compensation. The compensation would be relatively low for the US, but important to us, making our entire prison system is sustainable “
Rubio said that the Salvadoran president “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migration agreement all over the world.”
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State Secretary Marco Rubio meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in his home on Lake Coatepeque on Monday 3 February 2025. (AP)
“We can send them and he will put them in his prisons,” Rubio told reporters, referring to illegal immigrants behind bars in American prisons. “And he is also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serve their penalties in the United States, even though they are American citizens or legal inhabitants.”
Although Bukele has extended the offer to record violent American criminals, it is very unlikely that part of the offer would actually happen because it is illegal to deport American citizens. An American officer said that the Trump government is not going to deport American citizens, but noted that the supply of Bukele was considerable.
The proposal with El Salvador, known as a “safe third country” agreement, could possibly be an option for Venezuelan gang members convicted of the US as Venezuela refuses to accept them, and Rubio said Bukele offered to prisoners of a nationality to accept.
Bukele also said that he would illegally take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members in the US and promised to accept and lock up criminal illegal aliens from every country, especially those associated with the Tren the Aragua gang of Venezuela.
Manuel Flores, the secretary -general of the left -wing opposition party Farabundo Martà National Liberation Front, argued that the plan “Safe Third Country” would paint the region as the “backyard of the American government to dump the waste”.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in his home on Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday 3 February 2025. (AP)
Rubio visited El Salvador to insist on more help supporting President Donald Trump’s Mass deportation plan. He arrived in San Salvador shortly after looking at a deportation flight funded by the US with 43 illegal immigrants from Panama for Colombia.
The deportation flight had held 32 men and 11 women by the Panamanian authorities after illegally crossed the Darien -gorge from Colombia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the deportations send a message of deterrence.
“Massamigration is one of the great tragedies in modern times,” said Rubio afterwards. “It has an impact on countries around the world. We acknowledge that many of the people looking for massive migration are often victims and are the victim along the way, and it is not good for anyone.”
Rubio is almost halfway with his tour in Central -America after Monday’s visit to El Salvador. (AP)
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The trip from Rubio comes during a major freezing of American foreign aid and stop-work orders who have concluded programs funded by taxpayers that are aimed at illegal immigration and crime in Central America. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the secretary had approved distance for certain critical programs in countries he visits.
The secretary will continue to encourage foreign leaders to do more to help the US Fight illegal immigrationIncluding in his next stops in Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, who are part of his five-country Central American tour after visiting Panama and El Salvador.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
