| By AP News Photos: YouTube Screenshots President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases” even as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both say it raises clear legal issues. Read more. |
| Why this matters: Rubio reached an unusual agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a day earlier that the country would accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including American citizens and legal residents who are imprisoned for violent crimes. “I’m just saying if we had a legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. |
