The Guantanamo Bay detention centre has garnered a reputation for human rights abuses during the US ‘war on terror’. President Donald Trump has announced plans to transform the United States detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a holding centre for undocumented immigrants. The surprise announcement came on Wednesday, as the Republican president signed his first major piece of legislation, the Laken Riley Act. Trump had campaigned for a second term on the promise of leading a “mass deportation” campaign, targeting the nearly 11 million undocumented people living in the...

In what has developed as an obvious strategy on the part of President Donald Trump – announcing new plans even before his detractors can react to a previous strategy – he has confirmed that he’s asking for a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 illegal aliens. Trump only a day earlier, had announced a freeze on some government spending so those expenditures could be evaluated over whether they were being used for now-discontinued diversity and other racist programs. Then he rescinded the freeze while confirming...

Inside look at Guantanamo Bay, where Trump wants a mass detention camp built for migrants A military officer stands near the entrance to Camp VI at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' on June 25, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Suspected terrorists have been detained at the detention facility starting a year after the 9/11 attacks in 2002. It has housed a total of has housed a total of 779 detainees, but as of January 2025, 15 detainees remain, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Joe Raedle, Getty...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he plans to send detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay, the United States’ infamous military prison in Cuba. “Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump said. “So we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.” “We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump added. “This will double our capacity immediately.” Asked about the logistics of this announcement, newly...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump made the shock announcement as he signed a bill allowing the pre-trial detention of undocumented migrants charged with theft and violent crime -- named after a US student killed by a Venezuelan immigrant. He said he was signing an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Homeland Security department to "begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay," Trump said at the White House. "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we...

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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is planning to sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to set up a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. The facility for 30,000 people would be used to "detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said during an event at the White House on Wednesday, without giving further details. Some of those migrants were "so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming...

President Donald Trump has directed his administration to revive a migrant detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to hold detained migrants while they await deportation. “Today I‘m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump declared while signing the Laken Riley Act into law. Earlier, Robert F Kennedy Jr was the latest controversial cabinet pick to be grilled by Senators over his nomination to lead the Department of Health...

Trump to build mass detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 migrants WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will sign an executive order instructing his administration to begin preparations to build a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. "Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said during White House remarks. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them...