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Trump to instruct Homeland Security, Pentagon to prepare migrant facility at Guantanamo
He said the facility would be used to "detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.
The United States flag flies inside of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Camp VI at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba March 22, 2016. / REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Jan. 29 he will sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
"Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay," Trump said at the White House.
He said the facility would be used to "detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. 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 out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately, right? And, tough."
The U.S. detention facility known as Guantanamo Bay on the coast of Cuba was set up in 2002 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
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