What to Know About El Salvador President and Trump Ally Nayib Bukele as He Visits U.S.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical lynchpin of the U.S. administration’s mass deportation operation.

Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants—whom Trump administration officials have accused of gang activity and violent crimes—and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison just outside of the capital, San Salvador.