Marco Rubio thinks it’s a great idea to deport US citizens to foreign prisons if the price is right
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Reminder: The world’s worst deliberative body voted 99-0 to make this guy Secretary of State.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador offered on Monday to jail convicted criminals deported by the United States, a move that won praise from Secretary of State Marco Rubio despite questions about whether it is legal or even possible.
“We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” Mr. Bukele wrote on X, saying his government was willing to take in convicted criminals, including U.S. citizens, for a fee. “The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
El Salvador has the biggest prison system in the world in per capita terms, and houses many of its prisoners in nightmarish conditions. Bukele is a populist crypto scammer who has made Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador.
Moving right along:
Mr. Rubio said that El Salvador had proposed jailing undocumented migrants who have been convicted of crimes and deported from the United States. The secretary said Mr. Bukele had offered to also accept convicted criminals who are currently serving their sentences in the United States, “even if they are U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
The latter scheme is flagrantly illegal — a phrase that ought to be on any real journalist’s macro for the next four years minus 14 days.
An under-reported story is that the incarceration rate that drives America’s prison-industrial complex has been declining for about 15 years now, falling from a high of 755 per 100,000 in 2008 to 541 per 100,000 two years ago, mainly because the skyrocketing cost of imprisoning one out of every 100 adults in the country had produced some pushback in various states. We still have about 1.9 million people locked up on any given day in the US, which is vastly more per capita than in any developed country. Of course to Donald Trump and his minions, paying a low low sale price to this or that banana republic to offload US citizens into its prisons is win-win.