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El Salvador offers to accept deportees and US nationals in outsourcing of US prison system

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El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees of any nationality from the US, including US citizens.

US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said late on Monday that Bukele "has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world."

Rubio described the agreement as a "safe third country" deal to deport citizens who have violated US immigration laws. It would mean the US could deport non-Salvadorean migrants to El Salvador.

"He's also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the

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