President Donald Trump is meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele at the White House today, where the two leaders are expected to discuss their continued partnership — which is helping to facilitate the administration’s deportation policy.
Trump and Bukele will participates in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office.
More than 200 men accused of being Venezuelan gang members have been deported to a maximum-security in El Salvador under the.
On Sunday, Trump about human rights abuses in the infamous prison. “I don’t see it,” he said. “(Bukele’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 said.
The deportations have also prompted complaints and legal challenges from the migrants’ families and from critics who say the administration is trampling on civil liberties.
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