US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could not have been more complimentary about the deal he struck with the president of El Salvador on Monday.
The Trump administration’s top diplomat appeared delighted yet stunned by the fact that President Nayib Bukele should have “agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world”.
Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador’s mega-jail.
“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said.