Alien criminals might now think twice about sneaking into the US
Do they want to end up in a prison in El Salvador? I doubt it:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met today with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador. It was a tremendously successful meeting that will make both countries stronger, safer, and more prosperous.
Multiple agreements were struck to fight the waves of illegal mass migration currently destabilizing the entire region. President Bukele agreed to take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully. He also promised to accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country. And in an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country, President Bukele offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents.
I very much doubt that Bukele’s offer to take in US citizens would be allowed by the US courts, and I doubt the administration would even attempt it. But it was kind of Bukele to offer.
Also:
Secretary Rubio also raised strategies to counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the hemisphere to safeguard the sovereignty and interests of both nations and the region.
Bukele is very much a hardliner who cleaned up El Salvador; I’ve written about him here as well as here. I wouldn’t think a trip to one of his prisons would act as an incentive for a criminal to come to the US.
Another disincentive would be sending criminal illegal aliens to Guantanamo, which has already begun:
Trump last week signed a presidential memorandum last week to begin the process of making 30,000 beds available at Guantanamo to house migrants who pose a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there will ensure they do not come back.
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump said. “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.”
He added, “It’s a tough place to get out of.”
Guantanamo will apparently be reserved for the really really bad guys, but I assume the left will assure us that it will be filled with innocent abuelas and their grandkids.
These policies are aimed at getting rid of the criminal alien presence in the US, but I think the larger message is, Don’t come here if you’re a criminal. The free ride is over – unless it’s a free ride to an El Salvadoran prison or Guantanamo that you’re after.
I wonder if part of Mr. Rubio’s successful diplomacy throughout central and South America, is that he conducts it all in Spanish. Must be a breath of fresh air for Spanish speaking government officials. Not to mention not having a cadre of translators hanging around during sensitive negotiations.
I worry that when the Democrats get back into power in four years, they round up all those J6 protesters pardoned by Trump and take El Salvador up on their offer to to imprison Americans, probably starting with Trump himself.
Sneaking into the US???
Huh?
“Biden” invited ’em in!!
(In which case, the title really should be:
“Alien criminals might now think twice about being invited into the US….”
I wonder if part of Mr. Rubio’s successful diplomacy throughout central and South America, is that he conducts it all in Spanish.
It doesn’t hurt, to say the least. My speaking Spanish opened a LOT of doors in Latin America. As an example of the handicaps of depending on translators, consider Mayor Bernie Sanders’s 1989 visit to Cuba, where he concluded that Cubans had “almost a religious affection” for Fidel. Bernie ignored the fact that he depended on translators. Most Cubans are going to assume–correctly– that the state supplies the translators, and that the translators will report what they translated.
It’s a win-win to send illegals to Salvadorean prisons. It costs ~$30,000 per year to incarcerate them in the US. In El Salvador, I’d estimate the US would pay $1,000 to $10,000 per prisoner per year. El Salvador per capita income is $5,127 compared to $76,389 for the US, current dollars for 2022.
Bukele, born in 1981, was too young to have participated in the civil war, but his entry into politics was as a member of the FMLN, the former guerrilla group. He is no longer a member of that party.
Save Guantanamo for really bad ones…not for illegal bad ones. 30,000 beds can be filled quickly.
Send the Salvadoran MS-13 & Venezuelan Tren de Aragua & any other gangs down where gangs belong – in President Nayib Bukele’s prisons. Pay them a good price to house them. Can’t stand people who need to be in a gang for protection—reflection of weakness, IMHO.
Western civilization is mortally threatened from within and our leaders want to permanently house the worst of the left’s thugs at taxpayer expense…
The “really really bad guys” are inhuman cockroaches.
Treat them as such.
Perhaps some of the criminal aliens still in the US will leave, rather than risk being detained and sent to the prisons in El Salvador.
You’re probably right, Kate.
Carrot – leave on your own.
Stick – get arrested by ICE and sent to prison in El Salvador.
No brainer for most.
The now infamous prison in El Salvador is quite a scary phenomenon.
I wonder how much the guards are able to keep a backbone and lawful separation from inmates.
If at some point the inmates plan a riot, well … I wish it was on an island unto itself, far off any shore.
Marlene,
Well, they do get to go outside and exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o
Just as long as the new Secretary doesn’t go to Brazil and address anyone there in Spanish. It appears that his first trips abroad were to be to several other countries in Latin America. OK. Although I was puzzled that among the first hits my search returned was an English-language message from the U.S. Embassy in Cabo Verde – a Portuguese-speaking place – announcing Mr. Rubio’s swearing-in. And mentioning his quip in Spanish. I truly do not understand the mechanisms of diplomacy.
@ John > ” I truly do not understand the mechanisms of diplomacy.”
The cleaning out is still in progress.
These are probably members of the same club as the Obama-era diplomats who invited their Middle East counterparts to Independence Day BBQ feasts, presumably including such classic American fare as hot dogs and sausage.
Made with pork
I trust you see the problem.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-embassies-may-invite-iranians-to-july-4-parties-idUSTRE5516CD/
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/world/02diplo.html
“A New Iran Overture, With Hot Dogs”
(paywalled)
In regard to Rubio speaking Spanish with Mexican, or Central or South American leaders, that should certainly help. And he could probably learn enough Portugese to be credible if he really had to when visiting Brazil. But we need to remember that “Hispanics” are not a single group, and each sub group contributing to that term has their own accents and agendas and sub customs, etc.
If we compare the homogenization of the US regional dialects, etc., via radio, TV, and internet media, do any of our internationally travelled commenters have an opinion about if any such homogenization among those subgroups has occurred elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere?
AesopSon #2 served his church mission in Brazil, and loved it.
I was really sad when he lost his Portuguese accent.
However, he notes that it easier for the Brazilians to understand Spanish than for Spanish-speakers to understand Portuguese.