Defiant Donald Trump will send violent criminals of all nationalities to "hell on Earth" prisons in El Salvador. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele "has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world," which will see Mr Trump deport lags across his nation. The US leader believes the move will help make both countries "stronger, safer, and more prosperous" but little El Salvador, on the Pacific coast, has a population of just six million - a tiny fraction of the approximate 334 million living in the US.

Tammy Bruce, the US's State Department spokesperson, said: "President Bukele agreed to take back all Salvadoran MS-13 gang members who are in the United States unlawfully. He also promised to accept and incarcerate violent illegal immigrants, including members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but also criminal illegal migrants from any country. "And in an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country, President Bukele offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals, including U.S. citizens and legal residents.".

Deportation flights are already taking migrants out of the US and it is thought similar, US-funded flights will take criminals to El Salvador in the coming days. The jails there are notorious, with a feature in The Mirror last year describing them as "hellholes" and "hell on Earth". But United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, visited El Salvador to press the government to do more to meet Mr Trump administration's demands. Next, the dogged Republican, 53, will visit Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic as he continues to cajole governments into caving into Mr Trump's grand designs.

These - and the world leader's plan to ship out criminals - have already been criticised by other parties. Manuel Flores, the secretary general of the leftist opposition party Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, said these would signal that the Central America region is Washington's "backyard to dump the garbage.". And Mr Trump's aggressive stance on trade deficits and border security with neighbouring countries also seems to have yielded the desired outcome. Just days after threatening massive 25 per cent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, both countries have acquiesced to Trump's demands in exchange for a 30-day reprieve from the looming trade war.

The tariffs, announced on Friday, had sparked widespread alarm and threats of retaliatory measures from both countries. However, following a phone conversation with Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to deploy 10,000 personnel to the border and allocate "increased resources" to stem the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the United States. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories.