Trump plans Guantanamo facility for criminal migrants
Trump announced the plan to send criminal migrants to Guantanamo. According to the latest information, he has already dispatched additional forces there.
The White House announced that, in accordance with President Donald Trump's earlier promise, additional forces have arrived at the Guantanamo base in Cuba to create space for deported migrants who are to be detained there.
Trump wants to send migrants to Guantanamo
President Donald Trump signed an order on January 29 to build a detention center for dangerous criminal migrants at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. He also signed a law requiring federal authorities to detain all immigrants accused of crimes.
As Trump stated during the Wednesday ceremony, he instructed the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to "begin building" a facility for migrants, accommodating 33,000 people to detain the worst illegal criminal immigrants threatening Americans.
"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 to Guantanamo... it's a tough place to get out," Trump declared.
What's currently in Guantanamo?
Since 2002, the Guantanamo base has served as a detention center for individuals suspected of terrorism, whom US authorities have been unable to formally charge. Previously, it housed a migrant center, primarily for Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted at sea. The legality of both the first and second centers has been questioned.
Alongside the Guantanamo order, Trump signed the first law of his second term, the Laken Riley Act. This law, named after a student murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, mandates the indefinite detention by federal authorities under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of all immigrants accused of theft, including shoplifting, assaults on police officers, as well as acts causing injury or death to others, such as driving under the influence. The regulations apply to immigrants residing in the USA both legally and illegally.
