President Donald Trump is scheduled on Monday to host El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, for a bilateral assembly on the White Home.
Trump early on Sunday advised reporters he thought Bukele was doing a “unbelievable job” and “caring for loads of issues that we now have that we actually would not be capable to care for from a price standpoint.”
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media onboard Air Power One, on a flight to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S. April 13, 2025.
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Because the second Trump administration has cracked down on immigration, El Salvador has accepted into its custody a whole lot of alleged gang members. Many are housed within the nation’s Terrorism Confinement Middle, a maximum-security facility for El Salvador’s most hardened criminals.
“We now have some very dangerous folks in that jail, folks that ought to have by no means been allowed into our nation, folks that homicide drug sellers, a number of the worst folks on Earth are in that jail and he is ready to try this,” Trump mentioned on Sunday.
U.S. navy personnel escort an alleged gang member who was deported by the U.S. together with others the U.S. alleges are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang to be imprisoned within the Terrorism Confinement Middle jail, on the El Salvador Worldwide Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, April 12, 2025.
Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia through Reuters
Not less than one man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported as a result of an “administrative error” and is being held at that infamous jail.