San Jose, Costa Rica – State Secretary Marco Rubio says that Salvadoran’s President Naib Baukele’s proposal to accept violent American criminals and present them in jail is “clearly legal”.
Rubio called it “a very generous offer” and said that it would allow America to outsource the cost of some of the most dangerous criminals of the United States. But he said that “we have a constitution” and Trump Administration “must take a decision.”
This is a braking news update. The earlier story of AP is below.
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) – State Secretary Marco Rubio Trump will suppress the administration on priority of breaking on immigration, when he meets Rodrigo Chews, Chairman of Costa Rikon, a day later of an unusual agreement with the leader of Al Salvador. Later excluded any nationality including violent American criminals to accept us.
Rubio met employees at the US Embassy in San Jose as he faces a big upheaval for international development for the American agency that has left many people in the aid agency and the Department of Foreign and is afraid of their jobs Is.
America’s top diplomat is later expected to find a question at a news conference with Chews about the upheaval in the USAID and at the same time, to accept the migrant exile of all nationalities from the United States, Salvadoron President Naib Bukleele The proposal was accompanied by violent American citizens. We
Rubio said on Monday that we can send them, and he will put them in his jails. “His sentences in the United States may be American citizens or legal residents.”
Confirming the proposal in a post on X, Bukele said that Al Salvador “has given the United States an opportunity to outsource its prison system.” He said that his country would only accept “guilty criminals” and charge a fee that “will be relatively low for the US but will be important for us, which will make our entire prison system sustainable.”
The State Department described the crowded jails of Al Salvador as “rigid and dangerous”. Its country information webpage says, “In many facilities, provisions for cleanliness, potable water, ventilation, temperature control and lighting are inadequate or any.”
Al Salvador has been in an emergency situation since March 2022, when the powerful road gangs of the country went on the strength of a murder. Bukele replied by suspending fundamental rights such as access to lawyers, and authorities arrested more than 83,000 people, of which there is no less process.
In 2023, Boukele opened a large new gel with capacity to 40,000 gang members and cut off the food of prisoners twice a day. Prisoners do not travel there, and there are no programs to prepare them to re -recover in society after their sentences and any workshop or educational programs.
El Salvador, once one of the most dangerous countries in the world, closed with a record less 114 assassinations last year, a new security that has promoted the increasing popularity of about 6 million inhabitants in the country.
Stop in Panama and Al Salvador has been a top issue for the five-nation Central American tour of Rica, Guatemala and Rubio, the Republic of Dominican.
When Rubio was out of America this week, USAID employees and Democratic MPs were blocked from their Washington headquarters on Monday after Elon Musk, which is running the budget-slashing department of the government’s skills, That Trump agreed to the aid agency to close.
Thousands of USAID employees were already closed and the programs were closed worldwide. Rubio told reporters at San Salvador that he was now a USAID acting administrator, but he had handed over the right, so he was not running his day-to-day operation.
In a letter sent to the MPs received by the Associated Press, he said that the State Department will work with the Congress “to reorganize and absorb some bureau, offices and missions of USAID.”
He said that the agency’s procedures, which have been affected by Trump’s freeze on all foreign aid, are not well coordinated and “reduces the President’s ability to fulfill foreign relations.”
“In consultation with the Congress, the USAID can transfer, reorganize, and integrate some missions, bureau and offices to the state department, and the rest of the agency can be finished according to the law,” wrote.