El Salvador’s Bukele cements role as MAGA darling with deportation partnership

The long-running friendship between MAGA World and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was upheld Monday at the White House.

Bukele has met members of President Donald Trump‘s inner circle multiple times over the years. Most recently, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s former attorney general nominee, met with the Salvadoran president over the weekend ahead of his visit to the White House on Monday.

While the leader of a central American nation with a population of just 6 million would seem like an unlikely ally for Trump, the pair have formed a symbiotic relationship, according to Cornell University professor Gustavo Flores-Macias.

“For President Trump, the ability to send deportees to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison sends a very strong message to people considering entering the U.S. illegally that

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