President Donald Trump announced his intention to use the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to house 30,000 illegal migrants. Trump stated that the base has sufficient capacity to accommodate this number and that using it as a migrant facility would double the nation's current capacity. He plans to sign an executive order directing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare Guantanamo for this purpose.
President Donald Trump announced his plans to send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay during an event to sign the Laken Riley Act at the White House on Wednesday President Donald Trump has revealed his plans to send 30,000 illegal migrants to the US’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Trump on Wednesday said the US naval base in Guantanamo has thousands of beds to ‘detain the worst criminal illegal aliens’. ‘We don’t want them coming back,’ he said.
Trump claimed that there are 30,000 beds in Guantanamo and that using it to house migrants ‘will double our capacity immediately’. He added that the facility is a ‘tough place to get out of’. President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday Guantanamo Bay detention center has held hundreds of people accused of terrorism and other crimes since 2002.
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