El Salvador has offered to host convicted criminals in the U.S. for a fee

El Salvador could host and house criminals convicted in the United States at the Center for the Containment of Terrorists (CECOT) for a fee. The initiative was made by the country's president, Nayib Bukele, on the social network X (Ex. Twitter).

"We are ready to accept only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega prison (CECOT) in exchange for a certain fee," he wrote on the social network.

According to the politician, the fee to "outsource part of the prison system" would be beneficial to both the U.S. and El Salvador.

"The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable," Bukele said.

Migration exodus: U.S. policy threatens relations with Latin America

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On Feb. 4, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump began taking steps to lift deportation protections for 348,000 Venezuelans. This means that about 348,000 Venezuelans with temporary protected status, which is more than half of all Venezuelans covered by the program, could be deported and lose their work permits in April.

Prior to that, on January 21, Thomas Homan, a border security supervisor in the Trump administration, said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun detaining undocumented migrants for further deportation. At the same time, he noted that ICE's actions cannot be called raids, as they are part of targeted law enforcement operations.

Back on January 17, Politico reported that the U.S. presidential team intends to declare a state of emergency to combat illegal migration. It was noted that officials were also working on a decree to abolish the right to U.S. citizenship by birth.