Marco Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality including violent Americans
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the US 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 at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.“He’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S.citizens or legal residents,” Rubio said.
He had just met with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours.After Rubio spoke, a US official said the Trump administration had no current plans to try to deport American citizens, but said Bukele’s offer was significant.The US government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with significant legal challenges.Rubio was visiting El Salvador to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for a major crackdown on immigration amid turmoil in Washington over the status of the government’s main foreign development agency.He arrived in San Salvador shortly after watching a US-funded deportation flight with 43 migrants leave from Panama for Colombia.
That came a day after Rubio delivered a warning to Panama that unless the government moved immediately to reduce or eliminate China’s presence at the Panama Canal, the US would act to do so.Migration, though, was the main issue of the day, as it will be for the next stops on Rubio’s five-nation Central American tour of Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic after Panama and El Salvador.President Donald Trump’s administration prioritizes stopping people from making the journey to the United States and has worked with regional countries to boost immigration ...