President Trump announced plans to hold undocumented immigrants in a detention center at the US naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. "We don't want them coming back, so we're sending them to Guantanamo,
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."
The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.
Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
President Trump signed a memo on Wednesday to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported migrants. Trump had earlier teased he intended to do so during a signing ceremony for an immigration-related bill.
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The president says up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States could be housed at the facility in Cuba, but it wasn't immediately clear how the plan would be implemented.
President Trump announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center for migrants inside of Guantanamo Bay.
Not for the first time the U.S. federal government will turn to its agreed-upon lease with the Cuban government for a place to house migrants bound for or prohibited from staying in the United States.
Migrant advocates on Thursday were speaking out against plans by President Donald Trump to revamp Guantánamo Bay to detain and hold thousands of undocumented immigrants sent from the United