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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison thereABC News - 12h -
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s Deportees?
President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a reputation as being tough on crime, but have raised alarms over rights abuses.The New York Times - 16h -
Trump Says He Would Jail Americans in El Salvador ‘in a Heartbeat’
The proposal is almost certainly illegal, experts said, but President Trump’s eagerness to entertain it showed his willingness to embrace extreme measures to demonstrate he is tough on crime.The New York Times - 16h -
Rubio touts Bukele's 'generous' offer to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador, but experts say it's illegal
Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.NBC News - 19h -
Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador's mega-jail?
El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US and house them in its mega-jail.BBC News - 21h -
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. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees from the US ...The Guardian - 21h -
'Generous' El Salvador offer to house American criminals faces 'legalities:' Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that El Salvador’s offer to house American criminals in its prison system is “very generous” but could face “legalities.” “There are obviously ...The Hill - 23h -
Soldiers from El Salvador join U.N.-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence
Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of ...ABC News - 23h -
El Salvador offers to house 'American criminals,' deportees: Rubio
El Salvador has offered to house criminals who are American citizens and deportees of other nationalities, according to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio said late Monday that Salvadoran ...The Hill - 1d -
El Salvador offers to house convicted Americans for a fee
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made an offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to accept deported migrants from any country and house American citizens convicted of crimes in exchange for a fee ...NBC News - 1d -
El Salvador offers to lock up US criminals in its mega-jail
El Salvador says it can house dangerous criminals, including US citizens, in its mega-jail.BBC News - 1d -
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees and house U.S. criminals
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that President Nayib Bukele from El Salvador has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now ...NBC News - 1d -
El Salvador offers to house US prisoners in its jails
As Rubio visits, president says country could take American citizens as well as ‘violent’ immigrantsFinancial Times - 1d -
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United ...ABC News - 1d -
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept US deportees of any nationality as well as violent American criminals
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept US deportees of any nationality as well as violent American criminalsABC News - 1d -
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. Five Salvadorian environmental defenders who were exonerated of bogus civil ...The Guardian - 3d -
El Salvador's Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms
El Salvador’s Congress has ratified a constitutional reform that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele ...ABC News - 6d -
Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there
The arrangement, known as a "Safe Third Country" agreement, would empower U.S. immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to El Salvador.CBS News - Jan. 27 -
Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there
The Trump administration is developing an asylum agreement with El Salvador's government that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants to the small Central American country who are not from there, ...CBS News - Jan. 26 -
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late TuesdayABC News - Jan. 22 -
5.8-magnitude earthquake shakes El Salvador; no initial reports of damage
A strong earthquake drove frightened residents of El Salvador’s capital into the streets, but there was no immediate report of damage or deathsABC News - Jan. 9