El Salvador Will Accept Criminal Illegal Aliens From Any Country
Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also signed a Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation (NCMOU).

So, um, how does one describe the meeting between El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Secretary of State Marco Rubio?
🇸🇻🤝🏼🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/IBHielgYvI
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 3, 2025
I think successful is too light because…wow.
Bukele not only agreed to take back Salvadoran criminal illegal aliens but also those from any country…plus violent Americans:
Multiple agreements were struck to fight the waves of illegal mass migration currently destabilizing the entire region. 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. 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.
Secretary Rubio and President Bukele concluded a civil nuclear cooperation MOU, which was signed by the Secretary and Salvadoran Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco hours later.
Secretary Rubio informed President Bukele that the United States will issue a waiver to unfreeze assistance to support the two countries’ joint work to detect suspicious travelers at El Salvador’s National Passenger Analysis Center (CNAP), resume operations at El Salvador’s Border Security Information Group (CGIF), and support El Salvador’s vetted units working with U.S. law enforcement.
It is illegal to deport U.S. citizens, so that part of the deal won’t happen. This made me laugh.
Yes, we’ll gladly take him in. https://t.co/6rUn37xtHy
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 4, 2025
Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco and Rubio also signed a Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation (NCMOU):
The United States and El Salvador have an enduring diplomatic relationship and long-standing cooperation in the fields of security, energy, and commerce. This NCMOU represents an initial step towards establishing a robust civil nuclear partnership between the United States and El Salvador with the aim of enhancing energy security, promoting mutual prosperity through expanded economic cooperation, and promoting the highest standards of nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation.
NCMOUs are important diplomatic tools developed during President Trump’s first term in office that lay the foundation for expanding strategic ties between the United States and its partners thereby making the United States safer, stronger, and more prosperous through the promotion of U.S. industry and workforce.
Nayib Bukele has helped rebuild El Salvador and make it safer. He has cracked down hard on crime.
Is he perfect? No. The tactics make me wince. However:
It was Bukele’s first interview with a foreign reporter in three years. The occasion was something of a victory lap. At 43, he has remade a nation that was once the world’s murder capital, turning it into a country safer than Canada, according to Salvadoran government data. Bukele’s policy of mano dura—iron fist—drove an aggressive crackdown on vicious gangs that has jailed 81,000 people and led to a precipitous drop in homicides. After decades of violence, fear, and extortion, citizens can move freely in former gang-controlled “red zones,” lounge in parks, and go out at night. El Salvador now markets itself as the “land of surf, volcanoes, and coffee,” hosts international events like the Miss Universe pageant, and draws tourists and cryptocurrency enthusiasts to coastal enclaves like “Bitcoin Beach.” The transformation helped Bukele cruise to re-election earlier this year; his approval rating these days tops 90% according to the latest CID Gallup poll. His picture adorns key chains, mugs, and T-shirts at souvenir stands; prominent portraits of him and his wife greet visitors at the airport. As we spoke, blue-and-gold banners festooned the streets of the capital, remnants of his second inauguration three weeks earlier.
While in El Salvador, I signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic civil nuclear cooperation with Foreign Minister @CancillerAleHT. This cooperative MOU strengthens the U.S.-El Salvador bilateral relationship and helps promote mutual economic prosperity and advance our… pic.twitter.com/I936AVwZiO
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) February 4, 2025
We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.
We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee.
The fee would be relatively low for… pic.twitter.com/HTNwtp35Aq
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 4, 2025

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Great, let’s start with an elder senator who threatened Supreme Court justices.
How about a former commander-in-chief who is also the head if an organized crime family?
How about the whole Biden crime family?
That would be an affront to the other prisoners.
Hey Joe — if you think you’ve seen beaches, you ain’t seen nothing!
Bring the wife and kid!
El Salvador’s prisons get a fee and their reputation makes criminals self deport rather than get sent to El Salvador. A Win/Win for both countries.
“It is illegal to deport U.S. citizens”
Then revoke their citizenship. Maybe have a scoring system where when a person exceeds a certain aggregate amount of crime, they lose citizenship and are banished?
US citizenship, once legally obtained by birth or naturalization, can’t be revoked. The only way someone who was legally a US citizen can stop being one is by voluntary renunciation.
See, for instance, Afroyim v Rusk.
The Constitution must never be allowed to get in the way of what DJT wants to do. /sarc
There is no doubt that eventually Muslims will force us to deal harshly with them. I don’t think El Salvador could handle them, but South Africa can. South Africa and Arabs from Palestine really deserve each other.
Countries weren’t merely facilitating criminal migration, rather they were emptying prisons and asylums.
You don’t see %’s of migrants committing horrendous crimes out of thin air…
I hope that the US will explicitly/publicly decline President Bukele’s offer to take US citizens into El Salvador’s prison system. The State Department’s website notes President Bukele’s offer, but does not decline it, even though State Dep’t does discuss how the US intends to follow up on other aspects of recent contacts with El Salvador.
Here’s the link to the State Dept.’s release:
https://www.state.gov/secretary-rubios-meeting-with-salvadoran-president-nayib-bukele/
I hope the US will take up President Bukele’s offer and shutdown almost all of our Federal Prisons. Billions of dollars will be saved outsourcing the housing US prisoners in El Salvador with their cheaper labor rates. If you don’t like the idea of being in the El Salvador penal system then don’t do the crime so you can remain behind.
They don’t need to. It’s clearly unconstitutional to send our criminals there.
But by not declining it, it will serve as a deterrent to those who don’t understand that it’s unconstitutional.
>It’s clearly unconstitutional to send our criminals there.
Why would it be unconstitutional? This isn’t deporting US citizens, but just housing them in different prison that the US has contracted with for the term of the sentence. They can return to the mainland when they complete their sentence.
“Why would it be unconstitutional?”
Among other reasons, b/c of the 8th Amendment:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.“
Though the ‘constitutional’ definition of cruel and unusual is the definition during the period of the founding and not any subsequent societal/cultural adaptations. Same logic as Bruen and gun control laws.
Are you familiar with federal supermax prisons? If those are constitutional, then I don’t see why this would be a problem.
Why “cruel and unusual”? For one thing, imprisonment in El Salvador makes visitation by family and access to legal counsel much more difficult.
Under Biden*s administration almost all of Washington was being run from home with Zoom meetings so you can still visit your baby’s daddy in El Salvador and meet with your court appointed lawyer via Zoom meetings.
You and Chitragupta need to talk to each other. He thinks that sending American citizens to Salvadoran prisons is a great idea, and Constitution be damned.
The State Department’s description of the offer (“an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country”) can reasonably be interpreted as being receptive to it. America’s adversaries are likely to make good use of it for propaganda. How many Trump supporters would object if he implemented it via executive order? Chitragupta apparently wouldn’t.
That’s why the State Dept. needs to decline the offer explicitly/publicly.
Apparently you and dawgfan need to talk, too.
>> It’s clearly unconstitutional to send our criminals there.<
Really? So it’s not unconstitutional to send prisoners out of the country to Gitmo (that’s Cuba by the way) but it is unconstitutional to send prisoners to a prison in El Salvador? How’s that work, exactly.
“US citizens”
That was actually both the reason and the problem with sending people to Gitmo. We were declaring terrorists to be “enemy combatants” to avoid giving them POW status and the protections that would give them and to avoid giving them the rights of criminals in the US. Then we took them directly from Iraq/Afghanistan/etc to Gitmo because we said it wasn’t the US and the Constitution didn’t apply there.
I don’t think we sent any prisoners or convicts from the US there. I’m not sure on if we sent any US citizens that were captured abroad there, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
That was also the idea behind “extraordinary renditions” where we would send terrorists to countries that didn’t mind torturing them. Though I don’t really remember if we actually did it or if it was just rumors and innuendo.
It was a huge debate back then and positions didn’t necessarily line up with politics. For instance, Alan Dershowitz floated the idea of torture warrants.
But at the end of the day, I can’t see it passing constitutional muster to ship US citizens to a place where we know they won’t receive the protections the Constitution requires. That would be a terrifying prospect.
“That would be a terrifying prospect.”
It doesn’t seem to be terrifying to many commenters here, unfortunately.
I wouldn’t take any of it seriously. It’s fun to imagine Hillary and pelosi and all the others who have damaged the country actually getting a comeuppance, particularly after they’ve gotten away with misdeed after misdeed and probably will continue to do so. But when push comes to shove, the commenters here know that any power the government uses will eventually be abused by Democrats.
“I can’t see it passing constitutional muster to ship US citizens to a place where we know they won’t receive the protections the Constitution requires.”
You mean like Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Hawaii, California…?
Convicted criminals don’t enjoy ‘Constitutional rights’ in prison. They can’t exercise the 1A right to assemble and go protest at State Capital. No 2A rights. 3A, their ‘home’ is a cell. 4A nope they get all sorts of searches. Many of these same restrictions apply upon release, some even after end of parole.
If you restricted your comment to 8A, well sure. However that doesn’t mean they get all the touchy feely kumbaya crap the leftist wokiestas demand while in prison to be compliant.
The definition of ‘cruel and unusual’ is from the founding era not today’s cultural view. The logic of Bruen applies IMO. As late as 1843 an activist, Dorothea Dix ‘testified’ to the Massachusetts Legislature about conditions in prisons and work houses. Described the inmates as being ‘chained, lashed and beaten into submission’. Most of her concern was about the insane sent there for lack of alternative.
I think this is an amazing win for El Salvador. “El Salvador imports most of its fossil fuels, which power over half of the country’s energy needs.”
Nuclear power will be a huge boon for them in building a new economy.
I would imagine that the U.S. will pay for most of the building of a nuclear power plant (along with subsidizing the prison expenses, but that’s a side issue here).
However, the U.S. benefits because it will be a U.S. firm building the plant. The firm will gain valuable practical experience in designing and constructing modern reactors, something that is difficult to do in the U.S. because even with the Trump Administration the approval and construction process would be dragged out by challenges for a decade.
“The firm will gain valuable practical experience in designing and constructing modern reactors It’s been decades since I worked in the nuclear field. I wonder what design the US firm(s) will choose? Maybe the firm will go for a small, proven design to get things going, then consider one of the ideas that are under development. They’re quite promising.
I guess it would suck for Nancy having to report to prison thousands of miles away. Her daughter can visit her and film. It would make a great documentary about the end of her life. Anyway, she won’t be too lonely, there are plenty of her colleagues who could join her (her hubs can stay here though).
Why stop at Nancy? Send Hillary to keep her company.
Didn’t El Salvador recently announce a 3 billion dollar discovery of gold under their country?
El Salvador was facing an existential crisis, the gangs were arguably more a govt than the actual govt. Think Capone’s Chicago, on steroids.
Their president will never win any human rights awards for his actions, but he doesn’t care, he cares for his citizens and victims not the perps.
And he HATES organized crime gangs, so their prison lives are…. pretty bad. For this The World Left hates him, and will use any excuse to attack him. He’s sort of the Israel of South/Central America in that regard.
This agreement is a BIG win for Trump, hostile nations were trying to kibosh his deportation plans by refusing to accept criminal deportees – on supposed humanitarian grounds. Now the alternative is visibly less humanitarian than just taking back your own rapists, thieves, and murderers they exported to us.
But you know the critics are hypocrites by the fact that at least one modern nation with known worse treatment of criminals as well as a more expansive definition of “dangerous criminal” is immune to such criticism, Red China. AFAIK el savador doesn’t treat “politicals”, racial minorities, and exercise fanatics as dangerous criminals, nor do they sterilize them, work them in slave labor death camps, nor kill them when they test positive for wanted organ donor matching.
“Now the alternative is visibly less humanitarian than just taking back your own rapists, thieves, and murderers they exported to us.”
You seem to be on solid ground. According to Grok (https://x.com/i/grok), the US can indeed legally deport criminal aliens to countries other than than their own, when their own countries refuse to accept them.
I can definitely see how that might be a very useful outlet for the worst of our prison population. Anyone doing a life sentence or = on an actuarial basis (dude is 30 with a 50 year sentence) and then while in prison commit an act of violence; murder, rape, assault, throw feces/urine and so on …send their ass down to El Salvador to complete their prison term.
Trump could move the US Embassy near the prison and declare the prison to be part of the embassy compound thus making it US soil.
That would put them back into the reach of Hawaiian judges and Marc Elias’s ambulance chasers.
“El Salvador Will Accept Criminal Illegal Aliens From Any Country”
“Hey, guys! We’re getting the band back together!“
I just had a thought that made me giggle….
1. We will send all illegals whose countries won’t take them back to Guantanamo Bay prisons.
Response: Oh Nooo! That would be terrible!
2. Okay, fine then. We will send all illegals whose countries won’t take them back to prisons in El Salvador.
Response: Uhm, weren’t you saying Guantanamo Bay? Please? Pretty please? Double pretty please?
Yep. Art of the deal. Don’t like the deal I offered? I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.
Send them to Diddy’s freak off as the main attraction.
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