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El Salvador’s millennial dictator offers to hold American criminals in mega prisons
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/04/nayib-bukele-migrants-marco-rubio-mega-prisons-el-salvador/
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals” deported by the United States in his country’s infamous mega jails, according to Marco Rubio.
Mr Rubio, who is on his first overseas tour as US secretary of state, said this would include deportees of any nationality, including violent American citizens imprisoned in the US.
America’s top diplomat is seeking support from Central American countries for the new Trump administration’s attempts to deport large numbers of migrants.
Mr Rubio met with the president and senior officials at Mr Bukele’s residence on Lake Coatepeque outside the capital for almost three hours, where they agreed to go beyond El Salvador’s acceptance of its own deported citizens and to include migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States.
“Any… illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal – MS-13, Tren de Aragua [criminal gangs], whatever it may be – he has offered his jails. We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Mr Rubio said.
“And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”
Marco Rubio meets with Nayib Bukele during his visit to El Salvador as part of his tour of Central America
Marco Rubio meets with Nayib Bukele during his visit to El Salvador as part of his tour of Central America Credit: El Salvador Presidency/Anadolu
Mr Bukele confirmed the offer in a post on X, saying El Salvador has “offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system”.
The president said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable”.
Elon Musk, the billionaire working with Mr Trump to remake the federal government, responded on his X platform, “Great idea!!”.
After Mr Rubio spoke, a US official said the Trump administration had no current plans to try to deport American citizens, but said Mr Bukele’s offer was significant. The US government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with significant legal challenges.
As well as smoothing the way for the US to send migrants back to their own countries, Mr Rubio is trying to secure “third country” agreements, in which nations accept citizens of other countries that will not accept deportees.
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Cuba and Venezuela, for instance, have frosty relations with the US and have in the past limited the number of deportees they will accept, although Mr Trump says Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, has agreed to accept back his country’s citizens.
Similar agreements involving the deportation of migrants have been pushed in Europe, including Britain’s failed Rwanda scheme and Italy’s deal with Albania, which is being challenged in the courts.
But Mr Bukele also offered to go a step further: to house dangerous criminals who are US citizens or legal residents, Mr Rubio said.
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It was not immediately clear whether the US would take up that offer. More details of the agreement would be forthcoming, he added.
One of El Salvador’s prisons, a so-called mega prison or “Terrorism Confinement Centre”, has garnered much attention under Mr Bukele. The vast 410-acre complex was opened in 2023 and has the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates. Pictures from inside the prison have shown row-upon-row of tattooed, shaven inmates in cramped conditions, sitting on the floor one behind the other.
The US state department’s website notes that prison conditions in El Salvador are “harsh and dangerous”.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Bukele agreed to the migratory agreement that will see US deportees of any nationality locked up.
Rubio gloated that it was the most "unprecedented, extraordinary, migratory agreement anywhere in the world" following tense talks at Bukele's lakeside country house just outside of San Salvador.
He added that the Salvadoran president even "offered to do the same" for some of America's most dangerous criminals currently locked up in the US - despite being citizens or legal residents.
Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to turn the screws on the country to meet Trump's demands for a major crackdown on immigration.
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Bukele confirmed the offer in a post on X, explaining that his country would only accept convicted criminals and would charge the US a "relatively low" fee.
Tesla tycoon and Trump's right-hand man Elon Musk responded to the post, writing, "Great idea!"
Bukele agreed to take back blood-thirsty Salvadoran MS-13 gang members residing in the US unlawfully, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce explained in a statement.
She added that the Salvadoran president 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."
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In regards to the country also accepting to lock up dangerous American criminals, Bruce dubbed it as an "extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country."
El Salvador is renowned for its brutal jails, especially the Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison that houses some of the country's most dangerous gangsters.
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Other images reveal gang members stripped down to only white shorts running through the facility as prison officers armed with assault rifles guard the inmates.
Secretary of State Rubio spoke in San Salvador shortly after Trump shelved his punishing tariff plans for 30 days for Canada and Mexico in a last-gasp deal.
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Marco Rubio and Nayib Bukele shaking hands.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele during his visit to the countryCredit: Getty
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President Bukele has agreed to take back Salvadoran MS-13 gang members residing in the US unlawfullyCredit: AP
After talks with the US president, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the country's National Guard.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said he would go ahead with a massive round of border security measures after crisis talks with Trump on Monday.
Rubio arrived in San Salvador shortly after witnessing a US-funded deportation flight with 43 migrants onboard leaving Panama for Colombia.
It came a day after Rubio delivered a stern warning to Panama that unless the government moved immediately to eliminate China's presence at the Panama Canal, the US would retake control.
The notion of El Salvador accepting foreign nationals arrested in the US for violating immigration laws is dubbed a "safe third country agreement."
Hundreds of shirtless gang members sit handcuffed in a prison, surrounded by guards.
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A group of 2,000 detainees are moved to the Terrorist Confinement CenterCredit: Handout - Getty
a large group of men with tattoos on their bodies are sitting on the ground
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Gang members, cuffed and stripped to their underwear, are watched by guards carrying assault rifles
Handout photo of handcuffed gang members kneeling in a prison, guarded by police officers.
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Inmates' ankles and hands are shackled together in one of El Salvador's brutal jailsCredit: AFP
Gang members behind bars in a prison.
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Heavily tattooed gang members are crammed into cellsCredit: AFP
Officials have hinted that this could be an option for brutal Venezuelan gang members convicted of crimes in the US if Venezuela were to refuse to accept them.
Meanwhile, human rights activists have warned that El Salvador lacks a consistent policy for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees - arguing that the agreement might not be limited to violent criminals.
Manuel Flores, the secretary general of the leftist opposition party Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front, slammed the safe third-country plan and said it would signal that the region is Washington's "backyard to dump the garbage."
Following the meeting with Bukele, Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding - a non-binding agreement that outlines their intentions to work together - with his Salvadoran counterpart.
This is to advance US and El Salvador civil nuclear cooperation, which could eventually lead to a more formal deal involving medicine, too.
The deportation flight Rubio witnessed being loaded in Panama City contained migrants detained by Panamanian authorities after illegally crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia.
The State Department claimed such deportations sent a message of deterrence.
The US has thrown financial assistance at Panama to the tune of nearly $2.7 million in flights and tickets since an agreement was signed to fund them.
Rubio stood on the tarmac and personally watched as the flight to Colombia containing 32 men and 11 women took off.
Witnessing a law enforcement operation of this kind is known to be very unusual for a Secretary of State to do - especially in front of the cameras.
Speaking afterward, Rubio said, "Mass migration is one of the great tragedies in the modern era.
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"It impacts countries throughout the world.
"We recognize that many of the people who seek mass migration are often victims and victimized along the way, and it's not good for anyone."
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We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.
We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee.
The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.
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