El Salvador has extended an unprecedented offer to the United States: to take in deportees and violent criminals of any nationality. The announcement came from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday following a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
"In an act of extraordinary friendship to our county," Rubio told reporters, Bukele "has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world."
Under the proposed agreement, El Salvador will continue accepting its own citizens who have been deported from the United States. However, Bukele also pledged to "accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Agua and house them in his jails," Rubio said.
