Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant detention facility for "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

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.

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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."

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

President Trump is offering around two million federal workers to resign and be paid through September. Some Democratic lawmakers are pushing back against the buyouts, claiming they aren't legal. CBS News Digital politics reporter Kathryn Watson joins "America Decides" to break down the move.

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean nations.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Guantánamo Bay is the “perfect spot” to house deported migrants, after President Trump signed a memo Wednesday ordering a facility there be prepared for that purpose.

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