A U.S. embassy in El Salvador after a visit to the United States: President Nayib Buele and a crackdown on immigration
On a brief trip to El Salvador on Monday, Rubio told journalists that Bukele agreed to accept any criminal who is in the U.S. illegally to put in his country’s jails, as well as offered to accept “dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residents.”
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said at a signing ceremony for an unrelated civil nuclear agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister.
The U.S. official said the Trump administration has no plans to try and deport American citizens, but said that the offer was significant. American citizens can’t be deported from the U.S. in order to meet some legal challenges.
A friendly government was being pressed by a Republican senator to do more to meet a demand by the Trump administration for a major crackdown on immigration, even as Washington was going through turmoil over the status of the government’s main development agency.
Migration, though, was the main issue of the day, as it will be for the next stops on Rubio’s five-nation Central American tour of Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic after Panama and El Salvador.
President Donald Trump’s administration prioritizes stopping people from making the journey to the United States and has worked with regional countries to boost immigration enforcement on their borders as well as to accept deportees from the United States.
It was said that the country would accept and to jail U.S. citizens or legal residents who were convicted of violent crimes.
Human rights activists have warned that El Salvador lacks a consistent policy for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees and that such an agreement might not be limited to violent criminals.
The Farabundo National Liberation Front: Rubio tells El Salvador will house deportees from U.S., including Americans
The secretary general of the left-wing Farabundo National Liberation Front said that the plan would signal Washington’s “backyard to dump the garbage.”
While Monday’s deportation flight was taking place, Trump was threatening action against nations that won’t accept flights of their nationals from the United States. Panama has been more willing to allow flights of third country deportees to land in Panama and then sent back to their countries of origin.
A group of men and women were going back to their home country during the departure of the flight. It’s unusual for a secretary of state to personally witness such a law enforcement operation, especially in front of cameras.
“Mass migration is one of the greatest tragedies in the modern era,” said the speaker in a nearby building. “It impacts countries throughout the world. We recognize that many of the people who seek mass migration are often victims and victimized along the way, and it’s not good for anyone.”
His trip comes during a freeze in U.S. foreign assistance and stop-work orders that have frozen U.S.funded programs targeting illegal migration and crime in Central America. The State Department said Sunday that Rubio had approved waivers for certain critical programs in countries he is visiting, but details of those were not immediately available.
While Rubio was out of the country, staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed Monday to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters after billionaire Elon Musk announced Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
The program shut down after thousands of employees were laid off. The acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development was delegated the authority in order to keep it away from its day-to-day operations.
The change means that USAID is no longer an independent government agency as it had been for decades — although its new status will likely be challenged in court — and will be run out of the State Department by department officials.
Source: Rubio says El Salvador will house deportees from U.S., including Americans
Bringing Back the Panama Canal to the U.S.: The President’s Perspective on the Security and Development of our Country’s Prisons
The Panama Canal is a topic that came up in a recent discussion between the president of Panama and the speaker of the house of Representatives. The US turned over the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999, but they agreed to withdraw from the Chinese infrastructure and development initiative.
“We either want it back, or we’re going to get something very strong, or we’re going to take it back,” Trump told reporters at the White House. There will be dealt with by China.
The U.S. is “just profoundly grateful,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, for El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s offer to incarcerate criminals being held in American prisons — including U.S. citizens and legal residents — in his country’s jails.
The offer was extraordinary and never before extended by any country. But the prospect that the U.S. might consider deporting its own citizens to serve prison time in another nation’s jails quickly drew a backlash from people saying such a plan would be illegal.
If it were legal, President Trump would be happy if his administration pursued such an idea.
“I’m just saying if we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” President Trump said when asked about El Salvador’s offer on Tuesday. We’re looking at that right now and we don’t know if we do or not. Experts, however, are adamant it is unconstitutional.
“That’s an offer he made,” he said. We’ll study it on our end. There are obviously legalities involved. We have a Constitution, we have all sorts of things.”
Extradition and Deportation of a U.S. Citizen to a Non-Citolegal Foreign Country: An ACLU Attorney’s Perspective
“You may not deport a U.S. citizen, period,” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the group’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, told NPR. “The courts have not allowed that, and they would not allow it.”
In extradition cases, the U.S. sends citizens to another country to face criminal charges. Under certain circumstances, it would be unconstitutional to deport a U.S. citizen to a foreign country.
He said that Congress put in enough safeguards to make sure a non-citizen can not be sent back to their own country. There has to be an agreement with that third country, and the person needs to be aware that they are not in danger there and that they will be sent to another country if they don’t challenge it.
Trump said that other countries have said that they would love to take your criminals. He replied that he had never named any of those countries. Many.