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Trump Says Would 'Love' To Send US Citizens To El Salvador Jail

US President Donald Trump meets with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, where they discussed the deportation of people from the United States to El Salvador (Credit: AFP)

President Donald Trump stepped up his extraordinary threats to send Americans to foreign jails, saying Tuesday he would love to deport "homegrown" US citizens who commit violent crimes to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.

Trump raised the idea in talks on Monday with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele -- the self-proclaimed "world's coolest dictator" who has already taken illegal migrants from the United States into his country's jails.

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