U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has agreed to an “extraordinary” request to accept deportees and prisoners from the United States.
Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.
“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 said.
Rubio made the comments following a Monday meeting with Bukele in San Salvador, which the State Department has described as being “tremendously successful” for both sides….