Trump Considers Sending US Citizens to El Salvador Prisons

President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — US citizens included.

Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the US could help the Central American nation add more prisons, praising them as “great facilities.”

Bukele has one of the highest domestic approval ratings among world leaders thanks to his aggressive policing and mass incarceration efforts. He routinely shares videos on social media from the nation’s mega-prison Cecot, which has the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates.

“They don’t play games,” Trump said.

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