Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals” deported by the United States in his country’s infamous mega jails, according to Marco Rubio.

Mr Rubio, who is on his first overseas tour as US secretary of state, said this would include deportees of any nationality, including violent American citizens imprisoned in the US.

America’s top diplomat is seeking support from Central American countries for the new Trump administration’s attempts to deport large numbers of migrants.

Mr Rubio met with the president and senior officials at Mr Bukele’s residence on Lake Coatepeque outside the capital for almost three hours, where they agreed to go beyond El Salvador’s acceptance of its own deported citizens and to include migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States.

“Any… illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal – MS-13, Tren de Aragua [criminal gangs], whatever it may be – he has offered his jails. We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” Mr Rubio said.

“And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”