Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the United States had sent 10 members of two gangs — MS-13, which originated in the United States and operates in South America, and Tren de Aragua, rooted in Venezuela — to El Salvador late Saturday.

Rubio added in a social media post that “the alliance” between President Donald Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had “become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.”

Deportees sent to El Salvador this weekend came from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to a social media message posted by El Salvador’s justice minister, Gustavo Villatoro.

Villatoro also posted a video of men being marched off a military plane into a prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center.

The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans to the notorious prison in El Salvador at the invitation of Bukele, who is positioning himself as a crucial regional ally to Trump and is scheduled to meet with the president in Washington today.

— The New York Times