El Salvador Offers to House U.S. Deportees as Part of New Migration Agreement

El Salvador’s Bold Proposal for U.S. Deportees

In a significant move, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has proposed to accept illegal immigrants of all nationalities facing deportation from the United States. This offer includes housing them in the country’s prison system, raising discussions around migration control and international cooperation.

Details of the Proposal

This remarkable offer materialized during a meeting between President Bukele and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, held at Bukele’s lakeside residence near San Salvador. Following the meeting, Bukele took to social media to elaborate on the proposal. “We have offered the United States the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” he stated on X on Monday night. “We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison, CECOT, in exchange for a fee.”

A Sustainable Solution

Bukele emphasized that the fee for accepting these inmates would be modest for the U.S. but meaningful for El Salvador, helping make its prison system economically viable. Rubio described the agreement as a