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. President Donald Trump, late Wednesday, issued a memorandum instructing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to prepare Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, to receive up to 30,000 illegal immigrant detainees. “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to...

Since retaking office last week, President Donald Trump has issued numerous executive orders to address a nonexistent national immigration emergency. This week, Trump pledged to house undocumented migrants in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The plan is certain to spark blowback from progressives and civil libertarians alike and will likely provoke legal challenges. But ironically, Trump's action is partly enabled by former President Barack Obama's failure to close the facility in the first place.

Trump plans to hold up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the U.S. at Gitmo

President Trump says he plans to use a migrant holding facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to house up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States.President Trump says he plans to use a migrant holding facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to house up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States.

“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 Guantanamo,” Trump said Wednesday as he signed the Laken Riley Act requiring the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of crimes. Trump said the Guantanamo effort could double US capacity for migrant detentions. It was signaled by his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who earlier told Fox News that the administration was weighing sending migrants to the prison facility located on...

THEY GET BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD ON THIS ISSUE. MEANTIME, PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS A DETENTION CENTER AT GUANTANAMO BAY TO HOUSE UP TO 30,000 PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ILLEGALLY. HE SIGNED A PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM TODAY TELLING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. WESH 2’S GAIL PASCHALL-BROWN TALKED WITH A LOCAL CONGRESSMAN ABOUT IT. WEDNESDAY, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED THE FIRST LAW OF HIS SECOND ADMINISTRATION. THE LAKE RILEY ACT, THE LAW IS NAMED AFTER THE NURSING SCHOOL STUDENT WHO WAS MURDERED...

Trump orders Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to prepare for 30,000 at Guantánamo Bay “We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said, according to The Hill. The comment was made when he was at an event during which he was preparing to sign the Laken Riley Act into law, a move to strengthen 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...

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at the U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to "halt the border invasion." "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," the memo to...

Donald Trump wants to house 30,000 illegal migrants at Guantanamo Bay. The US President today told how he intends for the "worst of the worst" migrants to be kept under lock and key, and noted how "tough" it is to escape from the US military base in Cuba. It is the latest move in Trump's unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration in the US, which began the moment the 78-year-old Republican entered office last week. Speaking today, Trump described some of the migrants in his country as "the worst criminal illegal...

Under Trump orders, Guantánamo Bay facility soon to house migrants President Trump’s efforts to remove certain immigrants from the United States appeared to ramp up Wednesday after he signed a memo to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported individuals. The memo will direct the Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay, a facility in Cuba that has been used to house military prisoners, including several involved in the 9/11 attacks. “We have 30,000 beds...