U.S. strikes deal to deport illegal immigrants, including Nigerians to El Salvador
Nigerians and other nationalities living illegally in the United States will be deported to the South American country of El Salvador where they will be incarcerated, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The U.S. State Department has described El Salvador’s overcrowded prisons as “harsh and dangerous.” The department’s website, in its information on El Salvador, says, “in many facilities, provisions for sanitation, potable water, ventilation, temperature control, and lighting are inadequate or nonexistent.”
However, the Trump administration has announced El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of all nationalities as well as violent criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
Rubio said President Nayib Bukele ‘has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, migratory agreement anywhere in the world.’
‘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.’
‘President Bukele agreed to take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully. He also promised to accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country,’ State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
‘And in an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country, President Bukele offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents,’ Bruce added.
Bruce called it a ‘tremendously successful meeting that will make both countries stronger, safer, and more prosperous.’
Rubio spoke in San Salvador shortly after a flurry of activity in Washington D.C. as Trump announced a 30-day pause on tit-for-tat tariffs with both Canada and Mexico.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would push ahead with a massive round of border security measures after crisis talks with President Donald Trump on Monday.
After a conversation with Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Mexico has agreed to send 10,000 members of the National Guard to the border to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico.
