Trump: support for El Salvador's detention of U.S. citizens for violent crimes

President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to extend the “deportation program” to U.S. citizens and his support for El Salvador's detention of U.S. citizens for violent crimes in a meeting with El Salvador's President Bucher. In a video posted by Bucher on social media on the same day, Trump said he wanted to send “natives” to El Salvador to serve their sentences, adding that El Salvador “would have to build five more places,” implying that El Salvador's prison capacity was insufficient to accommodate all the U.S. citizens Trump wanted to send there. all U.S. citizens there. Previously, Trump had said on Feb. 4 that the U.S. government was investigating the legality of sending violent and dangerous U.S. criminals to prisons abroad.