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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Philip Marcelo and Marcos Alemn

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

El Salvador US Rubio - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally and to house some of the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after a meeting Monday with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, proclaimed it the most “unprecedented, extraordinary” offer the country has yet received during the ongoing wave of global migration.

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