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.

Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. base in Cuba since 1898, may soon house thousands of detained migrants, following a proposal by the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

President Donald Trump has said he wants to send 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens" to the notorious Guantanamo Bay US military base in Cuba.

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.

Trump provided few details but said it would house "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people." He announced the move during a bill signing ceremony at the White House for the Laken Riley Act,

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explained on FNC's 'Jesse Watters' how Guantanamo Bay can hold 30,000 illegal immigrants: "We absolutely can and can increase it rapidly. I served there, I know the places where this would happen.