Posted on 02/03/2025 7:23:54 PM PST by Morgana
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of all nationalities as well as violent 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.
'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 was visiting El Salvador on Monday 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.
'President Bukele agreed to take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully. He also promised to accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country,' State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
'And in an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country, President Bukele offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents,' Bruce added.
Bruce called it a 'tremendously successful meeting that will make both countries stronger, safer, and more prosperous.'
Rubio arrived in San Salvador shortly after watching a U.S.-funded deportation flight with 43 migrants leave from Panama for Colombia.
hat 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 U.S. would act to do so.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sounds like US dollars well spent.
This administration is like a Christmas wish list of smart government.
Did a VANITY suggesting we get illegals out of our prison system.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4293427/posts
Genius move, it will encourage self deportation rather than being sent to the Supermax.
IIRC, El Salvador has a very special prison for gang members ...
I’m shocked they are not already gone after threats of Club Gitmo. This is worse than Gitmo but you know there are always that few who are too stupid. Oh well.
New business? U-Store-It Self Storage
Only now for felons.
This is good.
When an illegal is deported take their DNA and tell them if they EVER again show their face here they will then be deported to El Salvador!
winning
If I were here illegally, I’d get out of here tomorrow!
ANY deportee, BUT PLEASE NO liberals from the USA.
I’ll bet the fact that Rubio speaks fluent Spanish and is himself of Hispanic descent is a huge plus when dealing with Central and South American leaders.
>>’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.’
I can’t see how sending U.S. citizens to serve their prison terms in a foreign prison is going to stand up to legal challenges, but I give the Trump administration credit for trying.
Makes the joint in Florence CO look like a vacation spot.
I don’t think it said that Trump was interested in that offer, just that Bukele made it.
Ahh, got it. Thanks.
I don’t think it hurts to leave it an open question.
Let the Dems and leftist media grab that bone and chew on it for a while.
Once they’ve committed themselves to that narrative and frothing spittle is running down their chins Trump, or a surrogate like SecState Rubio, can knock it down with a simple statement like “we are not, and have never, considered taking Bukele up on that offer.”
Bill Murphy first.
Phil not Bill
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