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.

The United States will pay El Salvador for "detaining violent criminals from the USA" and accepting deported individuals of any nationality. "It is a bizarre and unprecedented proposal being made potentially between two authoritarian,

We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities, plus American citizens who are criminals.