President Donald Trump has announced an executive order to prepare a
30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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According to reports, he directed the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to Consider the order as a matter of urgency to set it up with immediate effect.
The site, which was previously used for military prisoners, will house deported migrants.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said during an event to sign the Laken Riley Act into law, stiffening the nation’s immigration laws.
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” Trump added. “This will double our capacity immediately. And tough, it’s a tough place to get out of.”
