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Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who has carried out a sweeping crackdown on crime, offered the use of a maximum-security prison, Latin America's largest, when he met Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.

Latin Times · Feb 5, 2025

Trump would be ‘very happy’ to send ‘homegrowns’ to El Salvador’s prisons. It’s ‘incredibly illegal’

Immigration law experts and constitutional scholars are warning against the president’s threat to exile citizens in foreign jails

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025

El Salvador wants to detain deportees, including U.S. citizens, in notorious 'tropical gulag' terror prison

Facility has been accused of inhumane conditions, torture, and arbitrary detention

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025

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El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025

Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed an offer by El Salvador to take in prisoners -- including US citizens -- despite clear legal problems with such an outsourcing under American law.

International Business Times · Feb 4, 2025

Rubio Accuses Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela Over Migration Crisis

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday lashed out at authoritarian left-wing regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, accusing them of being "enemies of humanity" and of causing a regional migration crisis.

International Business Times · Feb 4, 2025

El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails

Human rights groups alarmed as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, meets with Nayib Bukele during overseas trip

The Guardian - US · Feb 4, 2025

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Secretary Of State Rubio Focuses On Immigration In Costa Rica

Secretary of State Rubio addresses immigration, USAID changes, and El Salvador's offer to host U.S. deportees.

El Salvador Offers To House Violent U.S. Criminals and Deportees

Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.

Reason · Feb 4, 2025

Inside El Salvador's 'Mega-Prison' Where The Trump Administration Could Send Convicted Criminals

Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele said his administration is willing to take in "only convicted criminals" in exchange for a fee

Latin Times · Feb 4, 2025

El Salvador’s president agrees to take U.S. prison inmates after meeting with Marco Rubio

Nayib Bukele offered to house ‘dangerous American criminals’ and outsource part of the U.S.’s prison system for a ‘relatively low’ fee

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025

El Salvador offers to jail US convicts in ‘unprecedented’ proposal

President Bukele’s proposal includes imprisoning US criminals in El Salvador’s largest prison for a fee.

Al Jazeera · Feb 4, 2025

Rubio Secures Unprecedented Deal With El Salvador To House Criminals Deported From US

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the deal includes an offer from Bukele to house dangerous criminals who are American citizens or legal residents, within Salvadoran prisons.

International Business Times · Feb 4, 2025

Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador

Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign

The Guardian - US · Feb 2, 2025

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US Secretary Of State To Discuss Deportation Of Gang Members

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet with Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele to discuss potential deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Sal...

Latin Times · Jan 30, 2025

Trump Seeking Deal With El Salvador To Send Tren de Aragua Gang Members To Its Prisons

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning on discussing the matter during his visit to the country in the coming days

International Business Times · Jan 30, 2025

On First Trip, Rubio To Wield Big Stick In Latin America

Traditionally, when US secretaries of state make their international debuts, they travel to major US allies and offer bromides about working together.

International Business Times · Jan 30, 2025

El Salvador Merchants No Longer Obliged To Accept Bitcoin

Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the cryptocurrency as payment, under a reform adopted to comply with conditions for an international loan.

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International Business Times · Jan 30, 2025

Salvadoran Town Hopes Trump Brings 'Good Times' For Bitcoin

Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven hope that US President Donald Trump's return to the White House will boost their cause.

Roll Call · Jan 29, 2025

Trump signs GOP immigration bill dubbed Laken Riley Act - Roll Call

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, a measure to enact stricter penalties on undocumented immigrants who commit crimes on U.S. soil.

International Business Times · Jan 29, 2025

'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

Reason · Jan 27, 2025

El Salvador's Bukele: Authoritarian or Model President?

Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.

Latin Times · Jan 27, 2025

Trump Crafting Asylum Deal With El Salvador To Send Deportees From Third Countries There

Such deportations are key for the Trump administration plans as many migrants targeted hail from countries who have shown reluctance to receive them

Latin Times · Jan 24, 2025

Trump Admin Uses Military Planes For First Deportation Flights As Migrants Are Warned Of 'Severe Consequences'

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the operation ordered by President Donald Trump "is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world"

Trump Implements Immigration Agenda Rapidly In First Week

President Trump's immigration actions have led to increased arrivals of migrants, expanded enforcement authority, and discussions on bilateral cooperation.

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