Donald Trump suggests that US -born criminals be deported to El Salvador, says Prez Nayib Bukele to "build another five prisons" | Today news

US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed that he had deported hardened criminals who are US citizens for prisons in El Salvador at a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the White House. ‘Homewid is next. You have to build five more places, ‘said Trump as he sat with Bukele in the Oval Office. He added: ‘If it is a homemade criminal, I have no problem. We are studying the laws. ‘ Trump eyes abroad to cut the costs. The president praised the prison infrastructure of El Salvador, claiming that criminals abroad would be more cost-effective. “We also have bad people, and I am for it, because we can do things with the president for less money and great security,” he said, endorsing further cooperation with Bukele’s government. Trump added later: “We must always fulfill the laws, but we also have homemade criminals pushing people into the subways, hitting elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat if they don’t look, these are absolute samples.” Legal obstacles to deport US citizens under current US legislation can naturally be born or naturalized-not deported or naturalized, except in rare cases involving denaturalization for crimes such as terrorism, high treason or immigration fraud. Trump acknowledged this challenge and said that his administration was still “looking at the laws” to determine feasibility. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later clarified that the president “simply drove” the idea. Bukele boasts El Salvador’s transformation of Bukele, whose administration has attracted global attention for mass lockout of suspected gang members, said El Salvador is now “the safest country in the hemisphere”, a dramatic shift of his past as the “murder capital of the world”. Trump praised the efforts of the Central American leader and called the prisons ‘great facilities’, and repeated his interest in expanding the cooperation of US-El Salvador on penalty justice. Continuous US payments for illegal immigrant affections The US currently pays El Salvador $ 6 million to keep migrants accused of gang affiliates in its mega prison, the terrorist locking center. More than 200 migrants have recently been deported to the facility. First published: 15 Apr 2025, 02:54 AM IST