Donald Trump to send prisoners to ‘hell on Earth’ jails where dozens are crammed into cells

The controversial plans could come into play this week

El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele has reportedly agreed to 'the most unprecedented, extraordinary, migratory agreement anywhere in the world' which will see Trump deport convicts across his nation.

The US President believes it will help make both countries 'stronger, safer and more prosperous'.

El Salvador, situated on the pacific coast has a population of just six million, a fraction of the 334 million living in the US.

Tammy Bruce, a spokesperson for the US's State Department 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 that similar US-funded flights will take criminals to El Salvador over the next few days.

The prisons there are notorious and have previously been described as 'hellholes' or 'hell on Earth'.

However, the controversial plans have been slammed by other parties in the USA and Central America.

Manuel Flores, the secretary general of the leftist opposition party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, said the plans would signal that the Central America region is Washington's 'backyard to dump the garbage'.

But Trump seems determined to get his own way and so far his threat of a trade war has yielded the desired results from his neighbours.

Days after threatening to hit Mexico and Canada with 25 per cent tariffs on goods, both countries have given in to his demands in exchange for a 30-day reprieve.

Canada threatened to employ retaliatory measures but after speaking on the phone 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 States.