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Anna Betts

El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails

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Nayib Bukele (left) and Marco Rubio meet at Bukele’s residence in El Salvador, on 3 February 2025. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees from the US of any nationality and hold them in his jails, including “dangerous American criminals”, Marco Rubio said on Monday.

The US secretary of state, who this week made his first overseas trip as the top US diplomat, visited El Salvador on Monday as part of a wider trip through Central America and the Caribbean.

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