The United States is considering the president of El Salvador’s offer to house criminals of any nationality in the Central American country’s jails, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Feb. 4.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele recently told U.S. officials his country would accept criminals of any nationality. “We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” Bukele said in a post on the social media platform X.
Rubio said the offer was made by Bukele and had been conveyed to President Donald Trump.
“Obviously, we’ll have to study it on our end. There are obviously legalities involved. We have a Constitution; we have all sorts of things,” Rubio said on Feb. 4….