Tom Homan, President Trump’s “border czar”, and Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney-general, travelled to Chicago to oversee efforts there. Mr Homan described Sunday’s operation in the midwestern city as a “gamechanger”,

President Donald Trump seems to have finally found a country that won’t rebuff his plan to send it hordes of undocumented immigrants who don’t hail from that nation. The Trump administration is working on a plan with El Salvador that would allow the Latin American country to accept immigrants from the U.

Trump's remarks come amid a crackdown on illegal immigration and executive orders that have paved the way for mass deportations.