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.
President 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 said Wednesday he is ordering officials to establish a massive migrant detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He made the announcement during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, which allows authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants. The president said on Wednesday (29 January) that he would be expanding the Cuban detention centre,
President Trump announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center for migrants inside of Guantanamo Bay.
Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the Laken Riley Act at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
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."
Guantanamo Bay "is a tough place to get out of," President Trump says, referring to plans to send the worst illegal immigrants there.
At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement would run the facility in Cuba and that the “the worst of the worst" could go to Guantanamo.
By Patsy Widakuswara and Aline Barros WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would sign an executive action directing his administration to prepare to detain undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay,
President Trump said his administration will begin preparations on building a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.