US strikes ‘extraordinary’ migrant deal with El Salvador to accept violent criminals and deportees.
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.
The breakthrough from Rubio came as President Trump secured border protection agreements from both Canada and Mexico following a whirlwind day that began with a cratering stock market and the threat of a trade war.
Rubio said President Nayib Bukele ‘has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.’
‘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 spoke in San Salvador shortly after a flurry of activity in Washington D.C. as Trump announced a 30-day pause on tit-for-tat tariffs with both Canada and Mexico.
