Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador’s mega-jail?

It was not possible that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be more complementary to the deal he concluded with the President of El Salvador on Monday.

The best diplomat of the Trump administration seemed pleased, but surprised the fact that President Nayb Bokil should have “agreed to an unprecedented and unusual immigrant agreement anywhere in the world.”

The agent offered to take people who were deported from the United States, regardless of their nationality, and accommodating them in the huge Salvador.

“We can send them and put them in his prisons,” Rubio said.

While this was already a victory for President Donald Trump, whose priority was to accelerate the removal of immigrants who are not documented from the United States, the real surprise in the deal mentioned by Rubio then came.

“he [Bukele] “He was also offered to do the same for the dangerous criminals in the reservation currently and spend their rulings in the United States, although they are American citizens or legal residents,” Rubio said.

Al -Salvadori leader later confirmed that “the United States of America’s offer to use external sources of the prison system.”

He explained that El Salvador will be “ready to take the convicted criminals only” and that his government will do so “for a fee.”

The agent also revealed the place where those deported from the United States will include: “We have a huge prison.”

The huge generation, also known as Cecot, has become a symbol of an iron agent in crime and punishment.

The maximum security prison, one of the largest prison in Latin America, was opened in January 2023 and could include 40,000 prisoners, according to government figures.

Prisoners are limited to cells without windows, sleeping on naked metal cakes and are constantly monitored by armed guards – some of whom watch them from above a poetic roof.

BBC News Mondo Lier Ventus, who was allowed to have an official tour of the facility last year after I repeatedly requested to reach how the cell temperatures reach 35 degrees Celsius.

Take a look at the graphics and the maps of the huge generation

With the possibility of access to the imprisonment that is strongly restricted and journalists were only allowed to carefully designed and designed, the number of prisoners for each cell is unclear.

Some law groups have been placed in 80 prisoners, while others say they could reach more than 150.

In response to a question by our journalists about the maximum capacity, the prison director answered, “where you can put 10 people, you can put 20.”

Prisoners are locked in their cells 24 hours a day – with the exception of 30 minutes of group exercise in a corridor without windows.

Prison design is not a coincidence.

After a particularly bloody weekend in 2022, when more than 70 people were killed in the small Central State of America, President Bokley wrote on social media: “A message for gangs: Because of your actions,” HomeBages “will not be able to see a beam of sunlight “.

Jail Mega-Jail is constructed shortly after that.

Conditions were imprisoned and prisoners were treated with severe criticism from human rights groups.

Miguel Saar, a former member of the United Nations Sub -Committee for Torture, described it as a “concrete and crucifixion”.

Can the Trump administration send us citizens there?

Bukele’s offer with Elon Musk’s approval, Trump’s close consultant who has re -dwarled the Socia Media Media Society, was met with comment: “A great idea!”.

But any attempt to deport American citizens or people who legally residing in the United States to a foreign prison must face legal challenges.

American citizens who were born in the United States have legal protection from deportation.

However, there are some cases that manive citizens – those who have not been born in the United States and who obtained American citizenship after birth through a legal process – can cancel their nationality.

This happens when the person concerned uses fraud to obtain citizenship in the first place.

Alex Koice, a lawyer and professor at the Kis Western Reserve University in Ohio, told the BBC that American citizens are suspected of associating criminal gangs or terrorist organizations – such as the Trine de Aragua criminal gang or Mara Salvatra, known as MS -13 – can also be stripped of it Of American nationality.

“If you discover that you are a member of any group you were persecuted or threatened with persecution of others, they can try to distort you,” added Mr. Koice.

“Therefore, if you have gang links and never revealed them, they can use this as a reason to cancel your cavity.”

Once a person is “distorted”, they are at risk of deportation.

Mr. Koitch indicated that any such step should be preceded by the “official court process” that took place in a federal court.

But the lawyer warned that “citizenship is not a final thing forever if you have been naturalized.”

He stressed, although he “did not hear” about the cases of American citizens born in the normal newborn who are sent abroad for prison on charges of crimes committed and trial in the United States.

Chef Dal-Henni, director of the government relations of the American Immigration Lawyer Association, said that she had never “heard of such a proposal” as sending citizens to us to serve the American prison sentences abroad.

While she admitted that there are different scenarios in which naturalized American citizens could lose their nationality, she said that “you cannot distort a newborn citizen.”

However, the status of permanent legal population in the United States is more dangerous than the situation of American citizens.

It can be deported if some provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Law violate, which include committing drugs, violent crimes, or crimes such as theft, fraud, or abuse.

Like manive citizens, they can also be deported if they get their residence through fraud.

The permanent legal population who participate in terrorism or espionage or any activity that threatens American national interests can also be at risk of deportation.

This last point is important in light On the day of his inauguration, CEO Trump Trump released drug gangs as “foreign terrorist organizations”.

As said Trump’s special envoy in Latin America, Latin America, Mauricio Klver Caron, last week, two of the two miserable criminal organizations were mentioned in the executive order, Trine de Aragoa and MS-13, last week.

Speaking at a press conference on Marco Rubio’s trip to El Salvador, Kloor Karen did not only extend with a agent with MS -13 – a deep rooted gang in El Salvador and her citizens have long been amazed The Venezuelan gang, Train de Aragua.

Kloor Caron seems to argue that just the possibility of sending it to Salvadori prison can return the members of the Venezuelan gang to their homeland.

“I bet they will want to return to Venezuela instead of dealing with Mara’s prisons in El Salvador.”

It seems that Marco Rubio stresses that the Trump administration will first want to send members of these famous gangs to El Salvador.

“Any illegal immigrant and illegal immigrant in the United States, Rubio, said,” any illegal immigrant and an illegal immigrant in the United States, a dangerous criminal-MS-13, Terr de Aragoa, whatever-his prisons, “said Rubio after his talks with the agent.

Although it is not in any way clear from – if anyone – is sent from the United States to the huge Salvador, it is with his “unprecedented offer of friendship”, he fell with a prolonged prone to Trump at the same time when the relations between The United States and its neighbors with the threats of the US President Imposing definitions on their goods.

With additional reports by BBBUS JR from BBC, Washington, DC.