President Donald Trump is scheduled on Monday to receive the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, for a bilateral meeting at the White House.
Trump early on Sunday told journalists that he thought Bukele was doing a “fantastic work” and “taking care of many problems that we really could not take care of from the point of view of costs.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks with the members of the media aboard Air Force One, on a flight to the Andrews joint base in Maryland, USA, on April 13, 2025.
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As Trump’s second administration has taken energetic measures against immigration, El Salvador has accepted hundreds of alleged gang members. Many are housed in the country’s terrorism confinement center, a maximum security installation for the most hardened criminals in El Salvador.
“We have some very bad people in that prison, people who should never have been allowed in our country, people who murder through drug traffickers, some of the worst people on Earth are in that prison and can do it,” Trump said Sunday.
The United States military personnel escort an alleged member of the gang that was deported by the United States along with others that the United States alleges that they are members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua and the MS-13 gang that will be imprisoned in the prison of the Center for Conflict of Terrorism, at the El Salvador International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, April 12, 2025.
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At least one man, Kilmar Abrego García, was deported due to an “administrative error” and is being held in that notorious prison.
