エルサルバドル、米国人犯罪者の収監を提案 米国務長官

【サンサルバドルＡＦＰ＝時事】中米エルサルバドルのナジブ・ブケレ大統領が米トランプ政権に対し、米国人の犯罪者をエルサルバドルの刑務所に受け入れ、収監するという異例の提案を行った。マルコ・ルビオ米国務長官が３日、この提案についてて発表した。（写真は、エルサルバドル・エルコンゴのコアテペケ湖畔にあるナジブ・ブケレ大統領〈右〉の自邸で会談するマルコ・ルビオ米国務長官）
　自国民を外国の刑務所に送る措置は現代の民主主義国家でほとんど例がなく、実行されれば米国の裁判所で異議が上がることは確実だ。
　ブケレ大統領は大々的な犯罪撲滅策でエルサルバドル国内での支持を急上昇させ、ドナルド・トランプ米大統領の周辺からも英雄視されている。
　エルサルバドルの首都サンサルバドルで会見したルビオ米国務長官は、ブケレ氏の申し出について「米国の市民権や合法的な居住権を持つ者も含め、米国で拘束されている危険な犯罪者を、彼の国の刑務所に収容するという提案だ」と説明。
　「こうした友好（的な提案）を申し出た国はかつてない」と称賛し、「われわれは深く感謝している。この件については今日すでにトランプ大統領と話した」と述べた。
　ルビオ氏は米国からの移送対象として、米国の市民権を取得した中南米のギャング構成員のメンバーを想定していることも示唆した。この中には、エルサルバドルの「マラ・サルバトルチャ（ＭＳ－１３）」やベネズエラの「トレンデアラグア」のメンバーが含まれる。
　トランプ米大統領は先月の政権復帰以降、合法的な滞在資格を持たない移民の強制送還を加速させることを最優先課題としている。また、合衆国憲法に明記されている出生地主義に基づく制度を廃止する意向も表明した。
　トランプ氏はさらに２００１年９月１１日の米同時多発攻撃以来、テロ事件の容疑者を収容してきたキューバ・グアンタナモ湾にある米海軍基地に、「犯罪歴のある不法移民」３万人を収容する計画も発表している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/02/04-18:18）

El Salvador's iron-fisted leader on Monday offered to jail Americans so President Donald Trump can outsource the US prison system, an extraordinary step that was hailed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
There is virtually no precedent in contemporary times for a democratic country to send its own citizens to foreign jails, and any attempt to do so is sure to be challenged in US courts.
But Rubio welcomed an offer to do just that by President Nayib Bukele, whose sweeping crackdown on crime has won him soaring popularity at home and hero status for many in President Donald Trump's orbit.
He has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those with US citizenship and legal residency, Rubio told reporters in San Salvador.
No country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this, Rubio said.
We are profoundly grateful. I spoke to President Trump about this earlier today, he said.
Bukele said that El Salvador would ask for payment and was ready to incarcerate Americans in a prison he opened a year ago that is Latin America's largest.
We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system, Bukele wrote on X after Rubio's statement.
The fee would be relatively low for the US but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.
- Crackdown on migrants and gangs -
Rubio said that Bukele was also willing to take back Salvadoran citizens and nationals of other countries.
Rubio appeared to suggest the focus in El Salvador would be on jailing members of Latin American gangs, such as El Salvador's MS-13 and Venezuela's Tren de Aragua.
Any unlawful immigrant and illegal immigrant in the United States who is a dangerous criminal -- MS-13, Tren de Aragua, whatever it may be -- he has offered his jails, Rubio said.
Since his return to the White House last month, Trump has put a top priority on speeding up the deportation of millions of people in the United States without legal status.
Trump has sought to crack down on the right to birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the US Constitution.
Trump has also unveiled plans to detain 30,000 migrants at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- a prison which previous Democratic presidents hoped to close.
The Trump administration is especially eager to deport Venezuelans.
Since taking office last month, Trump has stripped roughly 600,000 Venezuelans of protection from deportation ordered by his predecessor Joe Biden, citing the economic and security crisis in the South American country run by US nemesis Nicolas Maduro.
- Latin America's biggest jail -
Bukele's crackdown has included mass roundups of suspects without warrants and the opening of the maximum-security prison where he has offered to jail Americans.
The prison known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is surrounded by huge concrete walls on the edge of a jungle 75 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of San Salvador.
It is designed to house 40,000 inmates, with around 15,000 estimated to be there now.
Inmates at CECOT leave their cells only when they have court hearings by video link from a room in the prison, or to exercise for 30 minutes per day in a large hallway.
Bukele's actions have faced criticism from human rights groups but he swept back to power last year with the public grateful for plunging crime in what was once one of the world's most violent countries.
Rubio's motorcade traveled an hour through the forests to Bukele's lakeside vacation home on Lake Coatepeque, with the 43-year-old president sporting sunglasses and sneakers as he showed the top US diplomat the sweeping view.
As people on a boat below cheered him, Bukele waved down to them and told Rubio with a grin -- switching to English for a moment -- Ninety percent approval rating!
Bukele's other fans include the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., and the right-wing populist journalist Tucker Carlson, who both attended his second inauguration last year.
The Trump administration has so far not touched the protected status from deportation of some 232,000 Salvadorans in the United States, which was also extended by Biden.