The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they'd struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation,

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered to take in U.S. prisoners and, while it is unclear whether Donald Trump's administration will accept, Newsweek has broken down what you need to know. Newsweek has contacted the State Department,

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and immense popularity on an extreme security policy to combat gang violence in El Salvador, incarcerating large quantities of alleged gang members and securing a massive drop in homicides.