Ammon News - US President Donald Trump will host his El Salvador counterpart Nayib Bukele at the White House on Monday, highlighting the central American leader's role as a top ally in Washington's crackdown on undocumented immigration.

Bukele has agreed to accept migrants deported from the United States, locking up more than 250 in a notorious Salvadoran prison.

Political scientist Napoleon Campos said the meeting between Bukele and Trump had become oversimplified to "the issue of a heavy-handed security approach."

"There are other topics that could be discussed, such as investments and trade, but it all comes down to talking about a prison," he said.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Saturday that the US and El Salvador are "working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations, and build a future of Prosperity."

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Trump and Bukele "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." AFP