President Donald Trump's claim that his hardline deportation policies have helped drive US murder rates to their lowest level since the 1950s has revived a contentious question: could American citizens ever be sent to El Salvador's CECOT 'mega-prison' to serve their sentences?
On 14 October 2026, Trump promoted the facility on Truth Social, more than a year after Secretary of State Marco Rubio disclosed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's offer to accept convicted US citizens into his country's prison system.
