by Marielbis Rojas
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele agreed on Monday to accept undocumented migrants of any nationality who have committed serious crimes on U.S. soil from the United States.
This was announced to the press by the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, after almost three hours of meeting with Bukele at the Salvadoran president’s farm on the lake in the Coatepeque municipality.
According to the US official, the meeting agreed that El Salvador will house illegal foreigners and criminals in its prisons, whether they are from the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang or the Tren de Aragua.
Rubio explained that Bukele also offered to house in prisons “dangerous criminals” of American nationality who are in US custody.
“No country has ever made an offer of friendship like this,” Rubio told reporters at the hotel in the Salvadoran capital where he is staying.
Rubio said he spoke about this issue with US President Donald Trump on Monday, saying Bukele’s offer is “just a sign of what an incredible friend” he is to the United States.
The Salvadoran president had anticipated that both would close an “unprecedented” migration agreement between the United States and El Salvador.
On the same day he was sworn in as president, Trump signed an executive order designating drug cartels and foreign criminal groups as terrorist organizations.
The order targets Mexican drug cartels and Latin American criminal gangs such as Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and El Salvador’s MS-13, which it said “threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
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Marielbis Rojas is a Venezuelan journalist and communications professional, with a degree in Social Communication from UCAB. She is a news reporter for ADN América.
Photo “Marco Rubio” by Presidencia de la República de El Salvador.