Donald Trump to meet El Salvador President amid questions over deportations | World News
US President Donald Trump on Monday will meet El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, a leader praised by the administration for opening his country’s prison system to alleged gang members and detainees Trump wants out of the United States. The Trump administration has deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, including a Maryland resident it has acknowledged deporting by mistake. Trump, who came into office in January promising to reform US immigration policy, has found a kindred spirit for that effort in Bukele. Story continues below this ad The migrants El Salvador accepts from the US are housed in a high-security prison critics say engages in human rights abuses. Trump will meet Bukele at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) at the White House. “I think he’s doing a fantastic job, and he’s taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we really wouldn’t be able to take care of from a cost standpoint,” Trump told reporters on Sunday about Bukele, referring to the cost of imprisoning the detainees …
