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 instructed reporters he thought Bukele was doing a “improbable job” and “taking good care of lots of issues that we’ve got that we actually would not be capable of handle 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 tons of of alleged gang members. Many are housed within the nation’s Terrorism Confinement Heart, a maximum-security facility for El Salvador’s most hardened criminals.
“We’ve some very unhealthy folks in that jail, folks that ought to have by no means been allowed into our nation, those who homicide drug sellers, among the worst folks on Earth are in that jail and he is in a position to do this,” Trump stated on Sunday.

U.S. army 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 Heart jail, on the El Salvador Worldwide Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, April 12, 2025.
Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia by way of Reuters
No less than one man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported resulting from an “administrative error” and is being held at that infamous jail.