El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...

Unlike other Latin American leaders, El Salvador’s president is more than embracing US plans to move millions of undocumented ...

There is virtually no precedent in contemporary times for a democratic country to send its own citizens to foreign prisons, ...

Bukele ordered construction of ‘Latin America’s biggest prison’ as he launched his purge against El Salvador’s gangs – including the dreaded MS-13 and Barrio 18 – in early 2022.

Pres Bukele will incarcerate convicted criminals from the U.S. in his country, a macabre offer Marco Rubio praised as 'unprecedented.' 'No country’s ever made an offer of friendship such as this.

Under U.S. immigration law, a country such as El Salvador can accept someone deported from the U.S. who isn’t a citizen of ...

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El Salvador opened Latin America's largest prison last year to accommodate the tens of thousands jailed under Nayib Bukele's massive crackdown on violent gangs. There is virtually no precedent in ...

Explainer - What Is El ... to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. in the Central American country's CECOT mega-prison.

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegal immigrants – of any nationality – facing deportation in the U.S. to be booked in his country's prison system in exchange for a fee.