Immigration & Border Security

Immigration Reform Advocates Look to El Salvador

The country is offering free passports to skilled immigrants in what some say is the opposite of current American policy.
Immigration Reform Advocates Look to El Salvador
President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 22, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Matthew Lysiak
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The president of El Salvador is offering 5,000 free passports to highly skilled immigrants while also granting them full citizenship and tax benefits in a bid he believes will improve the small Central American nation.

President Nayib Bukele made the offer in an April 6 social media post on X, formerly Twitter, writing that the offer is open to “highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad.”

Matthew Lysiak
Matthew Lysiak
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Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author of “Newtown” (Simon and Schuster), “Breakthrough” (Harper Collins), and “The Drudge Revolution.” The story of his family is the subject of the series “Home Before Dark” which premiered April 3 on Apple TV Plus.
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