El Salvador agrees to hold U.S. prisoners and deportees of any nationality in their jails for a fee

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El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal​


“El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – that has alarmed critics and rights groups.

… “In an act of extraordinary friendship to our country … (El Salvador) has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio told reporters Monday.

The country will continue accepting Salvadoran deportees who illegally entered the US, he said. It will also “accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua and house them in his jails,” he said – referring to two notorious transnational gangs with members from El Salvador and Venezuela.

In addition, Bukele “has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents,” Rubio said.

It is unclear whether the US government will take up the offer, however, with questions around the legality of such moves. Any effort by the Trump administration to deport incarcerated US nationals to another country would face significant legal pushback.

“The US is absolutely prohibited from deporting US citizens, whether they are incarcerated or not,” Leti Volpp, a law professor at UC Berkeley who specializes in immigration law and citizenship theory, told CNN over email.…”
 
Bukele is working overtime to ingratiate himself with the Trump Administration, but really, why agree to take in so many prisoners?

Well, free labor is a key reason:

 

“… Following a homicide spike in March 2022, when 87 people were murdered in three days, Bukele launched a nationwide crackdown against gangs, led by El Salvador’s army.

So far, the operation has led to the incarceration of more than 80,000 people, mostly targeting the country’s most powerful gangs: Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18.

To accommodate these massive arrests, Bukele ordered the construction of a prison with 40,000 spots. The Terrorism Confinement Center has since been highly publicized by the Salvadoran government, which allows journalists and YouTubers to visit and showcase the country’s transformation from gang hell to the “safest country in the Western Hemisphere.”


Nayib Bukele’s security policies have also generated significant controversy regarding democracy and human rights.

To achieve his objectives, President Bukele has concentrated executive and judicial powers, giving authorities the right to conduct mass arrests and trials without due process. This approach has allowed the armed forces to incarcerate thousands of gang members, as well as innocent people who are still waiting for trials to determine whether they should remain in prison or be released. …”
 
“… Mr. Bukele rose to power in 2019 on a promise to rid his country of drugs and gangs and has since earned adulation across Latin America for bringing down crime in his country. At the same time, he has used emergency powers to order mass arrests that critics say have trampled human rights and the rule of law, ensnaring thousands of innocent people.


Mr. Bukele said Monday that criminals deported by the United States would go to the Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison built to house 40,000 people. Human rights groups have documented extreme overcrowding in El Salvador’s prisons and reports of torture by guards.

El Salvador signed a similar agreement in 2019to receive non-Salvadorans detained in the United States, known as a “safe third country” agreement. That deal was never implemented because of the Covid pandemic. Mr. Bukele referred to it on Monday, saying his new proposal was “more important and of a much broader scope than the agreements made in 2019.” …”

 
We will have to wait to see who is actually sent to prisons in El Salvador to comprehend the full implications of this arrangement, but sending IS citizens should be a non-starter.

This is a potentially dystopian agreement that requires ongoing scrutiny to make sure that immigrants formerly here legally but who have had status revoked and people whose only violation is being undocumented are not sent to these prisons as slave labor.

But Bukele is definitely Musk and Trump’s kind of client strong man.
 
“…Since assuming the presidency on June 1, 2019, Nayib Bukele has tightened his grip on power at the expense of eroding democracy and rule of law. At the beginning of this year, the ruling party secured a majority in the Legislative Assembly allowing it to pass laws without negotiating with the opposition and to completely reshuffle the Constitutional Chamber whose rulings until then had stifled the government.

The fruits of this for Bukele came fast, with the new handpicked judges wasting little time green-lighting his re-electoral ambitions albeit in express contravention to the country’s Constitution.

For now nothing seems to make a dent in the high popularity of the president who on his Twitter account describes himself as “the world’s coolest dictator”. …”

 
It's plainly illegal. Doing it to a US citizen is plainly unconstitutional (and I really don't think the Supreme Court would be too keen on it, though again it's hard to predict). Doing it for non-citizens is plainly a violation of the US statutory code and US international treaties.

The UK tried that with Rwanda and it blew up in their faces.

But again, for MAGA, the cruelty is the point.
 
Illegal, but perhaps more important to Donald Trump, it would make our corporate prison executives very unhappy.
 
What a HUGE deterrent to illegally entering this country. Who wants to pay $$$ to the cartel just to be sent to an El Salvadorian prison. It's even better than a wall - well, almost.

Doubt we send US citizens there.
 
What a HUGE deterrent to illegally entering this country. Who wants to pay $$$ to the cartel just to be sent to an El Salvadorian prison. It's even better than a wall - well, almost.

Doubt we send US citizens there.
What if we do? Do you support that?
 
So, we're just going to go back to internment camps, now? Out of sight, out of mind?
 
What a HUGE deterrent to illegally entering this country. Who wants to pay $$$ to the cartel just to be sent to an El Salvadorian prison. It's even better than a wall - well, almost.

Doubt we send US citizens there.
1. Doubt isn't remotely good enough. The reason not to create institutions so amenable to abuse is that they will be abused. If you don't create them, you don't have to sort out all the shit goes wrong.

2. You are literally advocating for the grossest violation of human rights since the Japanese internment. This policy would almost immediately turn the US into one of the world's worst countries on human rights. This extraordinary rendition shit is what the Saudis and Egyptian dictators would use against their political enemies.

3. If we're going to be getting into the business of violating human rights, let's make a deal. We can send people to El Salvador after we summarily execute all people who tried to overturn the 2020 election. Oh, what's wrong? You don't like that? Why not? It would be a huge deterrent to another insurrection, which is way worse for the country than migrants.

4. This is why the plaintive cries of the MAGAs, "why do you hate me just because of my political opinions?" are so pathetic. You are advocating for grotesque, unlawful violence against people who have done nothing to harm you. It's "politics" the way the Civil War was about "politics."

Think about what you're saying here. Deterrence at all costs. According to this logic, we should be encouraging fentanyl coming across the border. What better way to deter people from using heroin than making sure they die if they do? Oh, and let's mandate that steering wheel airbags be replaced with large metal spikes. Bet that would deter reckless driving.

5. The gap between the trivial shit you motherfuckers complain about suffering -- oh no! the government oppressed me by requiring me to get a lifesaving vaccine -- and the grotesque harm you wish to inflict on others is staggering beyond belief. It's nauseating, and it is why MAGA should never, ever be entertained in respectable company. Not until you fuckers get your heads out of your asses and stop trying to be inhumanly cruel. You're basically a would-be plantation overseer in a post-bellum world.
 
I keep seeing legality summoned as a manner to describe this or that regime behavior. Legality doesn’t matter anymore. This is a fascist authoritarian cabal and party, with control of the biggest guns. Rule of law is done.
 
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