President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a reputation as being tough on crime, but have raised alarms over rights abuses.

El Salvador has agreed to house in its prisons undocumented immigrants of any nationality with criminal backgrounds who are deported from the United States— a development that comes as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up its mass deportation efforts.

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and immense popularity on an extreme security policy to combat gang violence in El Salvador, incarcerating large quantities of alleged gang members and securing a massive drop in homicides.