President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as a detention site for immigrants.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

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."

The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.

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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.'

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often shrouded in secrecy, is a sprawling facility divided into multiple compounds, each with varying levels of security and accommodation.

From Guantanamo Bay to freezes on hiring and strange grant funding, the second Trump administration has incredible momentum.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo

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