GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is exploring whether he can send American criminals jailed in the “most severe cases” to be incarcerated in other countries. His comments come one day after El Salvador offered to take them in, along with migrants in the U.S. illegally whom Trump is seeking to deport. Trump told reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office that, “If we had a legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.” He said he doesn’t know if the U.S. can do that, but “we’re looking at that right now.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio reached an unusual agreement Monday with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for the Central American country to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including American citizens and legal residents who are imprisoned for violent crimes.
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