Watch the humint resources in South America and other places shrink. That means the government will be operating in an even less intelligence-informed environment than before. That won't worry this government, but it should.

Not just any Informants -- MS-13 that this admin was supposedly interested in taking down

>ongoing U.S. investigation into [El Salvador] government’s relationship with MS-13

>The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help achieve El Salvador’s historic drop in violence

>Bukele’s government [...] had agreed to give them financial benefits and less restrictive prison conditions in exchange for their promise to reduce the number of MS-13’s “public murders,” so it would appear the country’s homicide rate was decreasing

>U.S. authorities suspected Bukele’s government had used U.S. Agency for International Development programs to benefit MS-13’s leaders

>Canales Rivera [among the lead negotiators of MS-13’s pact with the Bukele government] offered to hand over recordings, photos, videos and other documentation [..] that would implicate the Salvadoran government in dealmaking with MS-13.

>He agreed to a confidential plea deal, and provided investigators information central to an investigation they had been building for years — one aimed at exposing how the deals struck between MS-13 and the Bukele government used U.S. resources and put Americans in harm’s way.

US develops task force late in Trump 1.0. Bringing "...the nine men into U.S. custody was among the most significant gang prosecutions undertaken by the Justice Department in years." High level members of the gang who are currently working with the US to expose MS-13 operations in the US and also how El Salvador is using US resources (our tax dollars) to pay off MS-13 in exchange for them to do their killing and other business privately.

Rubio/Trump made a deal to blow up the investigations by giving important assets back to be disposed of (or released back to MS-13) -- all to feed that temporary dog and pony show, earlier in the year, to their base supporters. This says it best:

“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang.