
By Mary Margaret Olohan. Media: DailyWire.com
WASHINGTON —Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, has arrived in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Donald Trump amid legal disputes over the United States deporting illegal aliens to El Salvador.
“Looking forward to seeing President Bukele, of El Salvador, on Monday!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday. “Our Nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations, and build a future of Prosperity. President Bukele has graciously accepted into his Nation’s custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the World and, in particular, the United States.”
“These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign Nation, and their future is up to President B and his Government,” Trump added. “They will never threaten or menace our Citizens again!”
The Salvadorian president will be at the White House on Monday to meet with Trump, where they “will discuss El Salvador’s partnership on using their supermax prison for Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members and how El Salvador’s cooperation with the United States has become a model for others to work with this administration,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this week.
Speaking with reporters on Saturday evening about Bukele, and asked whether he has concerns about the El Salvador prison to which illegal criminals in the United States have been deported, Trump responded: “No, I think he’s doing a fantastic job. And he’s taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we really wouldn’t be able to take care of from cost standpoint.”
“He’s been amazing,” Trump added. “We have some very bad people in that prison. People that should have never been allowed into our country.”
Trump invited the president of El Salvador to the United States in a letter that Bukele posted publicly last week, writing: “Your support of my efforts to combat illegal immigration is greatly appreciated. For far too long, our southern border has been an open door. With the assistance of friends like you, we have made great progress in protecting Americans from illegal border activity.”
“Also of great importance to our partnership is your willingness to use El Salvador’s new superman prison for Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members,” Trump added. “You have shown real leadership and are a model for others seeking to work with the United States.”
The visit comes after the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration and upheld a lower court decision stating that the White House must facilitate the return of a Salvadorian national, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to the U.S. from the El Salvador prison he was deported to. The United States deported him for being an alleged MS-13 member, but his legal team insists he does not have any ties to the gang.

Earlier last week, on Monday, the Supreme Court lifted a judge’s order blocking the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed judges blocking the Trump administrations deportations during a press conference with reporters, saying: “We can’t live in a country – it’s just not constitutional – where judges are now conducting the foreign policy of the United States.”
“The trip to El Salvador was one of the first trips I did,” he explained. “I think it was two weeks in, maybe three weeks in, as Secretary of State. I met with Bukele. I’ve known him for a long time. He’s very pro-American, very – likes the President a lot. He’s going to be visiting here pretty soon – I think maybe next week it is when he’s going to be coming to the Oval Office. And he agreed; he said, look, I’ve built these prisons and I will house people here. First of all, he wants his MS-13 killers that are in the United States, because they’re wanted for crimes in El Salvador too.”
Rubio also said that Bukele is willing to hold members of “this dangerous Venezuelan gang, and he’s doing it at a fraction of the cost of what it would cost us here in the United States to hold them.”
“This is one of the most dangerous gangs ever, Tren de Aragua, one of the most dangerous gangs you’ve ever seen,” he added. “They go in, they take over entire communities, and we want them out of the country. And Venezuela wasn’t taking them, so we had to find a place to send them, and he has the perfect place to send them. And that’s a deal we cut with him back in early February, and this was the execution of it. We’re very grateful.”
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