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
