Top gang leaders being sent back to El Salvador were part of a lengthy federal investigation that has amassed evidence of a corrupt pact between the Bukele government and MS-13.
Mr. Bukele, the Salvadoran president, agreed to help the White House carry out one of Mr. Trump’s signature policy agendas — the mass deportation of immigrants — by allowing scores of them to be housed inside his prisons where they would likely be beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system in exchange for millions of dollars and a request for the return of about a dozen senior members of MS-13 who were facing American charges.
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
President Trump has cut funding and specialists from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which helps protect the nation’s power grids, elections and water utilities.
President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.
“Putin speaks to me; he doesn’t speak to anybody else,” President Trump said, “because he was very insulted when he got thrown out at the G8, as I would be, as you would be, as anybody would be.”
Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney deployed both methods on the first day of the Group of 7 summit in Alberta to keep Mr. Trump focused and avoid drama.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s handling of President Trump on Monday was an evolution of his meeting with him in the Oval Office in May, when he chose to both stroke Mr. Trump’s ego, but also firmly push back on the president’s threats to annex Canada.
President Trump’s early departure comes after a White House official said he had decided not to sign onto a G7 statement about Israel and Iran. In the end, he did sign it.
From left, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain on Monday at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
In 2018, the president called for the group to embrace Russia and stormed out of the summit. Now he is seeking to shrink America’s military role abroad and embarking on a more expansive trade war.
In 2018, the president called for the group to embrace Russia and stormed out of the summit. Now he is seeking to shrink America’s military role abroad and embarking on a more expansive trade war.
President Trump’s decision to pause most raids targeting farms and hospitality workers took many inside the White House by surprise. It came after intensive lobbying by his agriculture secretary.
The abrupt pivot on an issue at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency suggested his broad immigration crackdown was hurting industries and constituencies he does not want to lose.
The government’s visuals appear intended to persuade migrants without legal status to leave the country, while also making clear the administration will not tolerate resistance.
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