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El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele is offering to accept all criminal deportees from the U.S. regardless of their nation of origin, in addition to offering prison space for Americans behind bars.The offer follows Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting Monday with Bukele, whose country is part of the Northern Triangle of Central America, from which many migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border come."We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system," Bukele wrote on the social media platform, X. "We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.Rubio met with Bukele in El Salvador where they discussed the prison system, crime and illegal immigration.