On April 15th, US President Trump reiterated during a meeting with Salvadoran President Boukel that he hopes to expand the “deportation plan” to US citizens and supports El Salvador’s detention of US citizens who have committed violent crimes. On the same day, Trump expressed on social media through a video posted by Booker that he wanted to send “natives” to El Salvador to serve their sentences, and added that El Salvador “must build five more places”, implying that El Salvador’s prison capacity is not enough to accommodate all the American citizens Trump wants to send there. Previously, on February 4th, Trump stated that the US government is investigating the legality of sending violent and dangerous American criminals to foreign prisons.
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