It's approximately $20k/detainee per year, with about $4mil already on the books out of an original $6mil deal, which has just been enlarged to $15million. This should not be conflated with the Congressionally appropriated aid funds for their pandemic recovery. Also interesting to note that under Trump's first term, Congress appropriated…
It's approximately $20k/detainee per year, with about $4mil already on the books out of an original $6mil deal, which has just been enlarged to $15million. This should not be conflated with the Congressionally appropriated aid funds for their pandemic recovery. Also interesting to note that under Trump's first term, Congress appropriated approximately $411 million to El Salvador for them to address the "underlying drivers of migration."
Hit enter too soon: we have historically mucked up most of Central America, and especially El Salvador. They use the USD (and bitcoin) as legal tender. The "money to address migration" trend continued under Biden. This is a fairly good overview of relations/monetary policy: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47083
However, no matter what the relationship monetarily between the two countries, we remain separate sovereignties and by no means should the US government be renditioning anyone to confinement in their prison system.
It's approximately $20k/detainee per year, with about $4mil already on the books out of an original $6mil deal, which has just been enlarged to $15million. This should not be conflated with the Congressionally appropriated aid funds for their pandemic recovery. Also interesting to note that under Trump's first term, Congress appropriated approximately $411 million to El Salvador for them to address the "underlying drivers of migration."
So that's how Bukele affords his Armani wardrobe as "coolest dictator"
Hit enter too soon: we have historically mucked up most of Central America, and especially El Salvador. They use the USD (and bitcoin) as legal tender. The "money to address migration" trend continued under Biden. This is a fairly good overview of relations/monetary policy: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47083
However, no matter what the relationship monetarily between the two countries, we remain separate sovereignties and by no means should the US government be renditioning anyone to confinement in their prison system.