El Salvador agrees to except any and all criminals that US plans to deport, regardless of country of origin. Good?

*accept*  In this case it completely changes things.  I heard that on the news too.  That country has a population of 6.5 million.  Wonder where they plan to put millions of new criminals...just thinking out loud.

El Salvador has a big crime problem of its own, so I can't imagine what carrot was dangled for them to accept more.

EDIT TO ADD:

"On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rubio and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced they’d reached an agreement to “outsource” U.S. prisoners to El Salvador’s mega-prison.

“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said in regard to foreign nationals detained for violating U.S. immigration laws. “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 U.S. citizens or legal residents.” The agreement was initially supposed to cover alleged gang members.

“We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” Bukele wrote on X. “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.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rubio-floats-dark-plan-deport-150419473.html

This post was edited by Spunky at February 4, 2025 3:54 PM MST