Why El Salvador’s ‘mega’ prisons are making the world safer

This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our allies in Latin America, while recognizing pro-US leadership in the region and highlighting a key success story amid rising hemispheric instability. Yet, leading Democratic politicians and their media allies sought instead to turn the occasion into a political cudgel against President Trump’s deportation policies. In doing so, Democrats have revealed a dangerous hypocrisy and a lack of seriousness toward both the safety of the American people and US engagement with...