El Salvador agrees to receive and imprison undocumented migrants with a criminal record in the US, says Rubio

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The Government of El Salvador has agreed to receive and access migrants from any nationality that are undocumented in the United States and have a criminal record, the Secretary of State for the US, Marco, said Monday, Blond.

Rubio, who spoke after meeting with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, did not give further details of the agreement, but added that the president had also offered the United States to receive in El Salvador “dangerous criminals” already imprisoned, American or resident citizens legal, to be sent to Salvadoran prisons.

“No country has ever made a friendship offer like this,” said Rubio.

Bukele, meanwhile, confirmed the agreement in his X account.

“We have offered the opportunity to subcontract part of its prison system to the United States. We are willing to accept only convicted criminals (including convicted American citizens) in our megaprision (CECOT) in exchange for a rate, ”Bukele said in an X publication.

He added that “the rate would be relatively low for the United States but significant” for El Salvador and that the prison system of his country would make sustainable.

Hours before, Bukele had told the media that they worked in a migratory agreement “that is not precedents.”