Marco Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality — including violent Americans

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the US of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States, Report informs via the New York Post.

President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.

“He’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents,” Rubio said. He had just met with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours.

After Rubio spoke, a US official said the Trump administration had no current plans to try to deport American citizens, but said Bukele’s offer was significant. The US government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with significant legal challenges.