Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday unveiled an agreement with the government of El Salvador, which says it will receive immigrants and asylum seekers of different nationalities who are deported from the United States. In his remarks Monday, Rubio praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has been accused of gross human rights abuses and of violating El Salvador’s constitution by remaining in power for a third presidential term.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “He has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal, from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his jails. And third, he has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residence.”
Rubio’s visit to El Salvador came after he met with officials in Panama. Rubio is heading to Costa Rica and then Guatemala today, before making a stop in the Dominican Republic as part of his first foreign trip as Trump’s secretary of state. We’ll have more on his trip after headlines.
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