El Salvador puts his prisons at the service of deportations of migrants who commit crimes in the United States

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has announced that he puts his prison system at the service of US deportations. “We are willing to admit only to convict criminals (including convicted American citizens) in our mega prison (CECOT) in exchange for a rate,” he said in X.

Bukele’s announcement had been previously advanced by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who on Monday had traveled to El Salvador to press the Latin American government to help the new administration of Donald Trump in his offensive against immigration.

Rubio said that Bukele “has accepted an unprecedented and extraordinary immigration agreement” in which the Savior will imprison any migrant without papers “to be a criminal” deported from the United States. The Secretary of State has made the claims before the press after signing a civil nuclear agreement, according to Associated Press.

The country will continue to accept Salvadoran deportees who have illegally entered the United States, and also “will accept the deportation of any illegal person in the United States that is a criminal of any nationality, whether from MS-13 or the Aragua train, and will keep them In his prisons, ”explained Rubio, referring to the two large transnational cartels that exist. The Venezuelan group of Aragua, is one of the most cited by Trump on its rallies.

In its publication to X, Bukele has assured that the deportees could accept thanks to a “rate would be relatively low for the United States”, but that it would be “significant” for El Salvador and “would make our entire prison system sustainable.”

Although the Trump administration is making an example to migrants without papers convicted of violent crimes or relations with criminal gangs, the “Criminal Convict” label covers a much broader spectrum. It should be remembered that the US Congress has already approved Last January a law that allowed to stop migrants without papers accused or convicted of minor crimes.

The CBS News chain had advanced a few days ago that an agreement was being created, known as a “third safe country” pact, which would grant US immigration workers the authority to deport migrants from any nationality to El Salvador, preventing them from requesting asylum in the United States. Instead, they would be deported with instructions to request asylum in El Salvador, which would be designated as a “third safe country.”

This same Monday, Trump also revoked temporary protections against deportation to more than 300,000 Venezuelans. Last week, the president already rescinded the 18 -month extension of the temporal protection status (TPS) that had approved his predecessor Joe Biden before leaving the White House. The revocation of the extension was a hard blow that affected more than 600,000 Venezuelans living in the United States.

El Salvador is in the spotlight of human rights organizations for a long time. The reverse of the Bukele regime, which presumes to have returned the security to the streets, is characterized by systematic arrests without evidence, cells filled to overflow with prison . These were some of the facts listed The report by the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) which was published on September of last year on the state of exception of El Salvador.

Precisely, this report pointed out as the justice system was collapsed and where the mega prison Cecot – which Bukele has offered to the United States – is characterized by the overcrowding of people who have imprisoned, some of whom had not yet been judged.

The announcement of Deporting migrants without papers to El Salvador arrives after Trump made his plan to expand the migrant detention center in Guantanamo and get up to 30,000 people.