El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been a key strategic ally for the Trump administration in support of the deportation and repatriation of hundreds of criminal aliens and gang members from the region.
Beginning in 2012, supported by President Obama, thousands of criminal gang members from south and central America flooded into the USA. In 2017, President Trump began to secure the border; however, in 2021 Joe Biden made the entry of alien gang members even easier. In 2025, President Trump is utilizing President Bukele and his maximum detention centers in El Salvador to reverse the flow and remove the gangs.
President Bukele has initiated major criminal justice reform in the nation of El Salvador, liberating millions of people who were terrorized by the criminal element. Today President Trump thanked Bukele for his partnership in the White House and held an open press assembly. WATCH: