President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday approving the use of the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of as many as 30,000 immigrants. The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.

President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense to ready facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 30,000 migrants.

President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".

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.

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, announced on Wednesday that the United States will use a detention center at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to house tens of thousands of people who cannot be sent back to their home countries.

President Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the US illegally who can’t be sent back to their home countries.

He said the facility at the US Navy base in Cuba, which would be separate from its high-security military prison, would house "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people". Guantanamo Bay has long been used to house immigrants,

WASHINGTON—President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to construct a facility for holding as many as 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. Navy base in Cuba would be used to “contain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,