‘Not just El Salvador’: Marco Rubio says U.S. looking for more countries to send migrants

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is in talks with multiple countries to try to get them to take people from third countries who are in the United States illegally.

“We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your countries,'” Rubio said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30. “‘Will you do that as a favor to us?’ And the further away the better, so they can’t come back across the border.”

Rubio emphasized that the conversations are with “not just El Salvador.” He didn’t name the countries, but the Washington Post reported earlier this month there could be as many as 30…

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