El Salvador Agrees to Accept Deportees and Detained U.S. Persons

On February 3, 2025, the U.S. Embassy spokesperson  announced that, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.” In addition to accepting “all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members in the U.S. unlawfully,” he agreed to “accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country” Bukele has offered to house “dangerous American criminals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents.”[1]