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Are Trump’s Deportations to El Salvador Just the Beginning?

The highlights this week: The United States deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador , Mexicans react to the discovery of a mass grave, and Honduras mourns a music icon.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief.

The highlights this week: The United States deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, Mexicans react to the discovery of a mass grave, and Honduras mourns a music icon.

Deportation Dilemma

Several Latin American leaders are cooperating with U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for large-scale deportations from the United States—but none more enthusiastically than Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

Bukele offered last month to house deportees from the United States in a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Over the weekend, the Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to the country, despite a judge’s order to block the expulsions.

Bukele posted videos of the migrants arriving in El Salvador and mocked the U.S. judge, posting on X: “Oopsie… Too late.” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reposted the message.

A White House spokesperson said the United States is paying El Salvador’s government around $6 million for taking the deportees. Bukele said they will stay in Salvadoran prison for at least a year, with an