According to current and former top homeland security officials, the Nayib Bukele management of El Salvador has indicated to the Trump management that it is willing to accept deported immigrants from different nations, but it probably has its own motivations for striking a deal.
El Salvador does been stepping up in good faith, according to authorities in border security and immigration, who have decades of experience working on the issue.
A recent older country security official who spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday said,” I think Bukele is trying to improve their ranking in the continent with this particular leader and, I think, in the world.”
Since the vote of Bukele in 2019, the state has pounced on its own group, MS-13, putting tens of thousands of the clique’s people in prison.
The state of , El Salvador , has opened the country’s largest , prison , as part of the country’s major assault on the , MS-13 , group, a move that the government’s leader said was the same answer to how the United States was “protecting crooks” under former President Joe Biden.
If the nation can continue on the upward trend it is on, it will also become the first bitcoin-based nation in the world and has since grown to be a major economic force in Latin America. Over the past 20 years, the United States has given it more than$ 1 billion in foreign aid.
” He’s just trying to be more than they’ve been previously and it seems like it’s working”, said the second official. ” There’s a Trump effect in terms of how,’ They need help, let’s help them and it will come down in our favor. ‘”  ,
El Salvador would benefit from stepping up, according to two former senior U.S. immigration and customs enforcement officials.
El Salvador is” not afraid” of Tren de Aragua, a gang that has become synonymous with MS-13 in the U.S., because they have shown how effective they are in capturing the nation and bringing down MS-13, according to Victor Avila, a retired senior ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agent.
” El Salvador really, really wants to partner with the U. S. They really are looking at economic investments here, and so I think that’s why they’re doing it”, said Avila in a phone call. ” I believe El Salvador has become safer than many of our own cities here in the United States right now, besides cleaning up their cities and making it safe. The beaches are open. The economic opportunity in El Salvador has grown tremendously”.
” We’re at the point where]it is a]’ Let me help me, help you,’ type of situation. ]El Salvador is ] going to help the country, the U. S., become a safer place”, said Avila. Because of the MS-13 situation, the United States can no longer ignore El Salvador and classify them in the same way.
The second former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his contacts with current senior officials in the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that the same principle of “help me, help you” was applied in agreements between the nations.
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The administration made promises to the government of El Salvador, the statement read. Hey, if you help us with this, this, and this, you’ll get, again, it was all financial support, nation building, all that other stuff”, said the third official. The State Department previously used some of their influence, funds, and everything to assist them, so I would assume it’s the same thing.
A request for comment was not received by the White House.
