Rubio says El Salvador gave us an “extraordinary” offer regarding deported, including US citizens
San Salvador, El Salvador – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that President El Salvador offered to accept the deportment of USA of any citizenship, including violent US criminals who are now closed in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “agreed to the most interesting, extraordinary, extraordinary migration agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after a meeting with Bukele in his village house of Lake outside Salvador San Salvador.
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“We can send them and he will put them in his prisons,” Rubio told the migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And he was also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals who were currently in custody and serving their penalties in the United States, although US nationals or legal inhabitants.”
Rubio visited El Salvador to press a friendly government to do more to fulfill the requests of President Trump for great suppression immigration.
Bukele confirmed the offer in the post on X, saying that El Salvador “offered to the United States the opportunity to Outsourse part of his prison system.” He said his country would only accept “convicted criminals” and charge a fee that “will be relatively low but significant for us for now, which will be sustainable by our entire prison system.”
Elon Musk, a billionaire who worked with Mr. Trump to process the federal government, answered on his X platform “Great Idea !!”
After Rubio spoke, the US official said Trump’s administration has no current plans to try to deport US citizens, but said Bukele’s offer is significant. The US government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be facing significant legal challenges.
State department describes the overcrowded prisons of El Salvador as “sharp and dangerous.” On its website with information on information, it says: “In many facilities, provisions for sanitary water, drinking water, ventilation, temperature control and lighting are inadequate or non -existent.”
Rubio arrived in San Salvador shortly after watching a flight of deportations that funded the US with 43 migrants leaving Panama to Colombia. This came the day after Rubio warned to Panama that unless the government moved immediately to remove the Chinese presence on the Panaman Channel, Now they would act on that.
Migration, however, was the main question of the day, because it would be the next stop at Rubiova’s five-after-day Central American tour of Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic after Panama and El Salvador. His tour takes place at the time of restlessness in Washington over Status of the main Government Agency for Foreign Development.
Trump’s administration is prioritized by stopping people to go to the United States and have collaborated with regional countries to increase immigration on their borders, as well as accepting deported from the United States.
The agreement described by El Salvador to accept foreign nationals arrested in the United States for violating US immigration laws is known as an agreement on a “safe third country”. Officials suggested that this could be an option for members of the Venecuela gang convicted of crimes in the United States should Venezuela refuse to accept themBut Rubio said Bukele’s offer was for detainees of any citizenship.
Rubio said Bukele then went on and said that his country was ready to accept and close US nationals or legal residents convicted and closed for violent crimes.
Human rights activists warned that El Salvador lacks a consistent policy for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees and that such an agreement may not be limited to violent criminals.
Manuel Flores, Secretary General of the left -wing opposition party Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, criticized the “Safe Third Land” plan, saying that it would signal that the Washington yard was to reject garbage.
After a meeting with Bukele, Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding with his colleague Salvadoran to improve the US civilian nuclear cooperation Salvador. The document could lead to more formal cooperation agreements in nuclear energy and medicine now having numerous countries.
The deportation flight ruled that he was loaded in the city of Panama, transporting migrants that the Panaman authorities attracted after the Darien Gap from Colombia illegally crossed. State department says such deportations send a message message. The US have provided financial assistance of almost $ 2.7 million in flights and tickets because the Financing Agreement has been signed.
Rubio was on the asphalt for flight departure, which took 32 men and 11 women in Colombia. It is strange that the Secretary of State personally testifies to such an operation of the implementation of the law, especially in front of the cameras.
“Mass migration is one of the great tragedies in the modern era,” Rubio said, speaking afterwards in a nearby building. “This affects countries around the world. We admit that many people seeking mass migration are often victims and victims along the way, and no one is good.”
The deportation flight on Monday came because Mr. Trump threatens action against nations that will not accept flights of their citizens from the United States, and he shortly hit Colombia with penalty kicks Last week for the original refusal to accept two flights. Panama was more expensive and allowed flights of deported third countries to land and migrants sent it back before they reach the United States.
His journey comes in the midst of freezing in the United States and the commands to stop and stop that have extinguished programs that have funded the US that have been focused on illegal migration and crime in Central America countries. State Department said on Sunday that Rubio had approved renunciation for certain critical programs in the countries he visited, but the details were not available immediately.
While Rubio was out of country, employees of the US International Development Agency were Addressed on Monday to stay outside the Washington agency headquarters After Musk announced that Mr. Trump agreed with him to close the agency.
Thousands of employees of USAID have already been discharged and the programs are off. Rubio told Salvador reporters that he was now an acting administrator of the USAID administrator, but he delegated that authority so that he would not conduct daily operations.
Change means that USAID is no longer an independent government agencies such as decades – although his new status is likely to be challenged in court – and that they will continue from the State Department of the Department of Department.
Rubio emphasized in his remarks that some and perhaps many USAID programs will continue in a new configuration, but that the switch is necessary because the agency has become imperceptible to the executive authorities and Congress.
At his weekend discussion with the President of Panama on the Panaman Channel, he ruined that he hoped that Panamani would listen to his warnings and Mr Trump’s China Warnings. The Panamani rushed to the insistence of Mr. Trump on the return of control of the US channel, which US surrendered in 1999, although they agreed to withdraw from the Chinese Infrastructure and Development Initiative.
“I understand that this is a sensitive question in Panama,” Rubius told reporters to San Salvador. “We don’t want to have a hostile and negative relationship with Panama,” he said. “I don’t believe we are. And we had a sincere and respected conversation and I hope it will give it fruits and result in the days to come.”
But in Washington, Mr. Trump was less diplomatically, saying, “China is involved in the Panaman Channel. It will not be long and it must be so.”
“We want it back, or we will get something very very very strong, or we will bring it back,” he told reporters at the White House. “And China will do.”