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Salvador offers to house criminals deported from the US in its jails 1 1 1
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Jan 14, 2025. (File photo: AP/Salvador Melendez)
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SAN SALVADOR: El Salvador on Monday (Feb 3) offered to house in its jails "dangerous criminals" from anywhere in the world deported by the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after lengthy talks with the Central American country's leader.
Rubio, who is on his first overseas tour as the US top diplomat, is seeking support from countries in the region for the Trump administration's attempts to deport large numbers of migrants.
He met with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and senior officials at Bukele's residence on Lake Coatepeque outside the capital for almost three hours, where they agreed to go beyond El Salvador's acceptance of its own deported citizens.
"Any ... illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal - MS-13, Tren de Aragua, whatever it may be - he has offered his jails, so we can send them and he will put them in his jails," Rubio said, referring to members of criminal gangs
