Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.

El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part of its prison system.”

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens.