For decades, El Salvador was a country that people fled — escaping gang violence, poverty, natural disasters and civil wars.

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump ...

The government of El Salvador has formally asserted it is the U.S., not the Central American nation, that retains “legal ...

The 2-year-old child of Venezuelan migrants is with a foster family after her mom was deported to Venezuela and her dad was sent to El Salvador, authorities said.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has cast aside allegations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was beaten and subject to ...

El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility built to hold the country’s worst criminals in eight buildings across a space equal to seven football stadiums. The Center ...

President Trump floated sending American citizens to Salvadoran prisons during a conversation with the Central American country’s leader on Monday — suggesting he build “five more ...

El Salvador's top Catholic leader on Sunday urged President Nayib Bukele not to turn the country into a Guantanamo-style U.S. prison.

Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he’ll go to El Salvador “to show solidarity" if President Donald Trump doesn’t return an illegal immigrant that the administration had deported.

Crossing the border illegally led Edicson Quintero to face long stints in detention, first in Georgia and now in a notorious Salvadoran jail.

Donald Trump and Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele discussed the U.S. deporting people to El Salvador's prisons in the Oval Office on Monday.

“You gotta build about five more places,” Trump told Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, prompting laughter from administration officials.