Trump moves to prepare Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 'criminal illegal aliens'
Trump to send 30,000 'criminal illegal aliens' to Guantanamo Bay
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would instruct the Pentagon to ready Guantanamo Bay to house 30,000 illegal immigrants.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare Guantanamo Bay to detain 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens."
"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 said. "Most people don't even know about it."
It was later learned that Trump signed a presidential memorandum, not an executive order, on the matter.
He said there are 30,000 beds at Guantanamo to house the detainees who pose a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there will ensure they do not come back.
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"Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back," Trump said. "We’re going to send them to Guantanamo."
He added, "It’s a tough place to get out of."
The president said the move will bring the U.S. one step closer to "eradicating the scourge" of migrant crime in communities, once and for all.
He also called on Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of U.S. borders and financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump’s move to send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo an "act of brutality."
"In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory [Cuba], of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention," he said in a translated post on X.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News’ Will Cain on the "Will Cain Show" on Wednesday that Guantanamo Bay is already being used to house illegal immigrants, particularly the worst of the worst.
She confirmed Trump’s mission to use resources to expand the capacity at Guantanamo, and said her department will make sure resources are placed there to ensure there is enough space to get criminal illegal aliens out of the U.S.
Also appearing on Cain’s show was his former colleague, and now Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who was stationed at the facility from 2004 to 2005.
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