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    Opened in 2023 to house up to 40,000 inmates during Bukele’s crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs, the facility currently holds roughly 15,000 people, including hundreds of alleged gang members the Trump administration has recently deported from the U.S. Doubling the prison’s capacity would create space for a total of 80,000 inmates.

    “We have no plans to bring them back, this is a long-term solution,” Noem told The Wall Street Journal after her visit with Bukele. “He has plans to double the size. He has 80-plus acres there that he’s going to continue to build on.”

    Trump told Bukele during the meeting that “you gotta build about five more places.”

    “We’ve got space,” Bukele said.

    “It’s not big enough,” Trump replied.

    5 × 80,000 = 400k, still a far cry from JD’s signaled intent to deport at least 20 million immigrants at a rate of a few million per year.