They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador.Then they received a warning: Leave immediately.

Nigel Farage is pledging to halve crime in Britain if Reform UK gets into the government. In a speech in central London this morning, the Reform leader unveiled plans for a sweeping overhaul of Britain’s justice system,

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump administration.

Nigel Farage has pledged to send Britain’s worst offenders to jail in El Salvador as part of a five-year plan to halve crime rates. The Reform UK leader unveiled a £17.4 billion scheme to boost police numbers and prison places, and said he would introduce new rules to increase the number of jail sentences handed down by judges.

El Salvador on Tuesday surpassed the one-year mark since the gang-ridden nation began cracking down on organized crime under emergency powers originally intended to last one month.

But El Salvador’s war is hyper-concentrated among specific people and places. More than 48% of all homicide victims in 2015 were Salvadoran males between 15 and 29 years old.

In 2016, there were 5,278 murders in El Salvador, or more than 14 killings per each day of the year, according to data from the US State Department.

At one point, El Salvador had become so lawless that a large percentage of its population fled in fear of extortion and death at the hands of El Salvador’s brutal street gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18.

An El Salvador citizen who was unlawfully in the United States, according to the FBI, has been arrested more than a year after he allegedly caused a deadly crash in Indianapolis.

Below, InSight Crime looks at the security platforms proposed by the three most viable candidates. Hugo Martínez – FMLN. After taking office in 2014, Salvador Sánchez Cerén’s time as president of El Salvador is coming to a close.

Seemingly overnight, El Salvador’s prison population swelled to 109,519 people, about 2.5 percent of the adult population — the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Nigel Farage claims he can HALVE crime in Britain with £17.4bn 'zero tolerance' crackdown that sends offenders to jails in El Salvador - as he warns parts of society are 'collapsing'.