El Salvador offers to house violent American criminals and deported of any nationality in an unprecedented agreement with Trump administration

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El Salvador has agreed to house violent American criminals and receive deported by any nationality in an unprecedented agreement with the Trump administration that has troubled critics and rights groups.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the deal on Monday after meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as he visits several Central American countries to elicit the white house’s migration agenda.

“In an act of extraordinary friendship to our country … (El Salvador) has accepted the most unprecedented and extraordinary wandering deal anywhere in the world,” Rubio told journalists.

The country will continue to accept Salvadoran deported who illegally entered the United States, he said. It will also “accept for deportation Any illegal foreigner in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, whether it is MS-13 or TREN de Aragua and houses them in his prisons,” he-with reference to two notorious transnational gangs said with members from El Salvador and Venezuela.

In addition, Bukele has “offered to house in his prisons dangerous US criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said.

Bukele confirmed the agreement on x and said In a post “We are willing to consume only convicted criminals (including convicted American citizens) to our mega prison (Cecot) in return for a fee.”

“The fee would be relatively low for the United States, but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable,” he added.

Prior to the message, critics had warned that such a plan could be part of the democratic decline.

“The United States essentially proposes to send people to a country that is not the country of origin, and that is not necessarily the country they passed through,” said Mneesha Gellman, an international politician and professor at Emerson College.

“It is a bisarr and unprecedented proposal that has been made potentially between two authoritarian, populist, right -wing leaders seeking a transaction relationship,” Gellman told CNN. “It is not rooted in any kind of statutory and probably violating a number of international laws relating to the rights of migrants.”

CNN has reached El Salvadoran officials for further details.

One of the most striking aspects of the agreement is that Salvadoric law does not distinguish between alleged bed members and people found guilty of a crime. During the draconian emergency that has ruled the Central American country since 2022, authorities can withhold anyone simply on the suspicion of being members of a gang.

Bukele has boasted of a high prison rate as a recipe for security – El Salvador can now boast Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International Believe that many of the over 80,000 people who are imprisoned during the emergency are innocent.

This is an evolving story.