US President Donald Trump announced his intention to use the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to hold up to 30,000 migrants, marking a significant escalation in his crackdown on immigration. The move comes as part of a broader strategy that includes increased deportations, a national emergency declaration at the southern border, and the cancellation of former President Joe Biden's extension of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.
US President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defence and Homeland Security to prepare the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay as part of his sweeping crackdown on immigration.
Despite previous administration efforts to close the prison, some 15 inmates remain, according to Reuters. The control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention compound which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, in Cuba.The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but it is likely that personnel from DHS will be responsible for the migrants themselves. It is unclear how the facility will be funded.
“We stopped that,” Noem said on Fox News. “We signed an executive order within the Department of Homeland Security that we are not going to follow through on what they did to tie our hands.”
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