As the United States tries to arrest hundreds of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua crew members, El Salvador has agreed to accept legal illegal immigrants of any ethnicity.
According to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, the most recent partnership with El Salvador was reached during a” immensely powerful meeting” between Bukele and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in San Salvador.
” President Bukele agreed to take back all Peruvian MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully”, Bruce said in a speech. Additionally, he even made a pledge to take and house arrest aggressive illegal refugees, including people of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua group, as well as illegitimate illegal immigrants from any other country.
Bukele also made arrangements to house U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who had been found guilty of a serious crime in Salvadoran jails.
Coatepeque Lake … photograph. twitter.com/4gZmHCepXk— Nayib Bukele ( @nayibbukele ) February 4, 2025
Ric Grenell, the particular presidential envoy for unique missions for the Trump administration, traveled to Venezuela over the weekend to secure the release of six British hostages and a resolution that Venezuela would formally accept again Tren de Aragua members.
During the border crisis, the members of the gang allegedly entered the country and were involved in violent crimes against Americans, including Laken Riley, a student at Georgian for healthcare, who was killed in aggravated assault. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX ) compared El Salvador’s MS-13 to” Boy Scouts” when put up against Tren de Aragua.
According to current and former top Department of Homeland Security officials who spoke with the Washington Examiner in late January, Bukele, who was elected in 2019, signaled to the Trump presidency next month that El Salvador was willing to accept deported immigrants from different nations, but good not without its own opportunities.
Since Bukele’s vote, the state has cracked down on its own group, MS-13,  , putting thousands of thousands , of its people in prison.
The state of , El Salvador , has opened the country’s largest , prison , as part of the assault, a shift Bukele , said , was the reverse of how the U. S. was “protecting thieves” under previous President Joe Biden.
The Rubio-Bukele meet came just weeks after the , Trump presidency rescinded , deportation , privileges that the Biden presidency had issued for about 600, 000 , Venezuelans , in the U. S. during its last days in office.
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The DHS secretary issues a temporary protective status designation every 18 months to decide whether a nation should be exempt from having its citizens deported because the government is unable to accept them as a result of war, famine, or natural disasters.
The decision to remove Venezuela’s TPS signaled in this case that the Trump administration might anticipate deporting and arresting a sizable number of Venezuelan citizens despite having stated that it would prioritize deporting criminals before general immigration offenders. Immigrants who have been found guilty of crimes are not eligible for TPS.
