What to know about El Salvador’s deportee offer

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, each said earlier this week they reached an agreement for the Central American nation to house U.S. deportees of any nationality — including American citizens and legal residents imprisoned in the U.S. for violent offenses.

Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said Monday after meeting with El Salvador's president outside San Salvador on Monday.

“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the U.S. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”

Bukele later said that El Salvador has “offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.” He said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”

Rubio on Tuesday said that there are "legalities involved" in this offer, but that it will be up to President Donald Trump to decide how to proceed.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 1967 case that Congress generally does not have the power to revoke a person's American citizenship.

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