Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discusses President Donald Trump's plans to use Guantanamo Bay to house criminal migrants in the interim on 'The Will Cain Show.'
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 US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama fought to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, with the former reducing the prisoner count to 15. But President Donald Trump clearly doesn't agree with the approach and wants to fill GITMO with 30,
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."
Trump announced the plan before signing the Laken Riley Act, a law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses.
Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has cost US taxpayers at least $13bn to run – so if Trump really wanted to find that two trillion dollars in government waste, he could start by closing the facility, not expanding it,
U.S President Donald Trump has authorised the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to build a 30,000-person prison centre for undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean nations.