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.

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The Trump administration's top diplomat appeared delighted yet stunned by the fact that President Nayib Bukele should have "agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world".

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's mega-jail.

"We can send them and he will put them in his jails," Rubio said.

While that was already a win for President Donald Trump, whose priority has been to speed up the removal of undocumented migrants from the US, the real surprise came in the part of the deal Rubio mentioned next.

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