El Salvador accepting deportees, any nationality including Americans, from the United States
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently visited El Salvador. He obtained an agreement from El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, to take deported illegal aliens from the United States. Bukele’s offer went further… These deportees could be of any nationality including Americans convicted of violent crimes. For the latter, Bukele asks for a housing fee, which would be cheap compared to what would be needed to house them in the United States. This latter proposal would face resistance from within the U.S.
From AP News:
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president 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 after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours late Monday.
“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “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 U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
Rubio was visiting El Salvador to press a friendly government to do more to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for a major crackdown on immigration.
Bukele confirmed the offer in a post on X, saying El Salvador has “offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.” He said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Additional Reading:
Lee, M. (2025, February 4). Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans. AP News. Link.
Category: Illegal Immigrants, International Affairs
Very win-win.
This is like win-win with puppies, ice cream and titties on top.
Sprinkles on ice cream will no longer be quite as special. You’ve seriously raised the bar.
Damn. That mental image is so warm and fuzzy.
The concept is nice, as an offer. It won’t fly given the cruel and unusual clause. I can see an immediate and losing court debacle should they try to transfer US citizens to a third world prison system
But it will be fun to try. They can do a death row thing where it takes 20 years to go through the courts.
Send American citizens who have been convicted of crimes in the U.S. for detention in a foreign county? Not just no, but F**K NO!
That’ll get tossed by the courts on the first go-round. Even if the conditions in those foreign prisons were acceptable by our standards (fat chance), the simple fact that the prisoners would be denied a reasonable opportunity to be visited by family members, or that their legal counsel would have to travel to said foreign country to consult with their client should be enough to flush this idea down the toilet.
Concur. As much as I’d love to send certain prisoners off to a third-world shithole prison, ya just can’t do that.
But if they could, think of the deterrent? People will already do literally anything to keep from going to jail. Maybe they would even stop committing crimes?
I think a better deterrent would to simply make prison unpleasant again. No TV (or only TV playing Armed Forces Network), limited phone calls, productive labor 8-12 hours per day, 5 or more days per week using some of the proceeds to cover the costs of incarceration, etc.
What about the transgenders. Can we send them?
Copy the Sheriff Arpaio jail system.
Pink clothes, baloney sammaches, tents surrounded by barbed wire, no a/c, fans only, limited tv (IIRC he showed the weather channel so the prisoners would know what was up the next day; and one other, maybe Disney?), NO exercise equipment, road clearing work.
I seem to remember it was Disney until it was realized the perverts were…enjoying…the kiddie shows. Then, it was the Fishing Channel along with the Weather Channel.