This would be a better option than sending criminal migrants to Guantanamo. I'd tap the brakes on sending American criminals to a foreign prison though
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that El Salvador has offered to accept deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens who would be held in the country’s maximum-security prison.
Rubio said Bukele had also offered to take in any “illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal,” including members of the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs. Rubio said that he was grateful for the offer, and added that he had spoken to President Trump about it earlier in the day.
It was unclear whether the U.S. planned to accept the offer, or the legality of sending American citizens to a foreign prison
For his part, Bukele said he had offered the U.S. “the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system” to its Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the largest prison in the world built to house 40,000 inmates. His statement on X included photos of the gleaming prison, with rows of shirtless tattooed gang members with their hands above their heads.
The Salvadoran president promised the fees the country would charge “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable,” he said in a post on X. “Great idea,” said Trump ally and X owner Elon Musk.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that El Salvador has offered to accept deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens who would be held in the country’s maximum-security prison.
Rubio said Bukele had also offered to take in any “illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal,” including members of the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs. Rubio said that he was grateful for the offer, and added that he had spoken to President Trump about it earlier in the day.
It was unclear whether the U.S. planned to accept the offer, or the legality of sending American citizens to a foreign prison
For his part, Bukele said he had offered the U.S. “the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system” to its Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the largest prison in the world built to house 40,000 inmates. His statement on X included photos of the gleaming prison, with rows of shirtless tattooed gang members with their hands above their heads.
The Salvadoran president promised the fees the country would charge “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable,” he said in a post on X. “Great idea,” said Trump ally and X owner Elon Musk.
