According to diplomatic documents and sources familiar with the matter, US State Department officials privately objected to El Salvador's crackdown on Haitian gangs, and President Trump himself fully supported this. On Monday, El Salvador issued an official rebuttal document questioning the credibility of America's top diplomat in Haiti. An American official said, “There is a group of bureaucrats who don't want to see the changes in the Western hemisphere landscape that the president is expecting.”

According to diplomatic documents and sources familiar with the matter, US State Department officials privately objected to El Salvador's crackdown on Haitian gangs, and President Trump himself fully supported this. On Monday, El Salvador issued an official rebuttal document questioning the credibility of America's top diplomat in Haiti. An American official said, “There is a group of bureaucrats who don't want to see the changes in the Western hemisphere landscape that the president is expecting.”