US President Donald Trump's immigration policies are reigniting tensions between El Salvador and Venezuela. On Monday, El Salvador's president proposed repatriating 252 Venezuelans deported by the United States to his country in exchange for an equal number of Salvadorans imprisoned in Venezuela—whom El Salvador regards as political prisoners.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded El Salvador release hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported from the United States, who he described as being “kidnapped,” after his Salvadoran counterpart earlier proposed a prisoner swap.

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuela involving 250 Venezuelan deportees from the United States who are being held in his infamous Terrorism Confinement Center.