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

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any convicted criminal deported by the United States.