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Trump eyes deportation of ‘homegrown criminals’ to El Salvador

US President Donald Trump greets President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador outside the West Wing of the White House [Shawn Thew/EPA]

The United States hopes to start deporting criminals that hold US passports to El Salvador, President Donald Trump has said.

Trump told reporters as he welcomed El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday that he would like to send violent “homegrown criminals” to be imprisoned under a deal with the Central American country’s government.

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