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President Donald Trump is meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele at the White House today, where the two leaders are expected to discuss their continued partnership — which is helping to facilitate the administration’s deportation policy.Trump and Bukele will participates in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office.More than 200 men accused of being Venezuelan gang members have been deported to a maximum-security megaprison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.On Sunday, Trump brushed off concerns about human rights abuses in the infamous prison. “I don’t see it,” he said. “(Bukele’s) taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we really wouldn’t be able to take care of, from a cost standpoint,” Trump said.The deportations have also prompted complaints and legal challenges from the migrants’ families and from critics who say the administration is trampling on civil liberties.