Bukele struck a deal under which the U.S. will pay about $6 million for El Salvador to imprison the Venezuelan immigrants for a year. When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to turn around a flight carrying the immigrants already en route to El Salvador, Bukele wrote on social media: “Oopsie ... too late.”

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele arrived in Washington, D.C., on Sunday ahead of his Monday meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. The meeting comes as the White House has been ordered to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia,