Trump says we will send some migrants to Guantanamo Bay

US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of migrants in Guantanamo Bay, which he believes will own up to 30,000 people.

He said the facility in the US Navy in Cuba, which will be separate from its high-security military prison, will house the “worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

Bay Guantanamo has long been used to accommodate immigrants, a practice that has been criticized by some human rights groups.

Later on Wednesday, Trump’s Border Tsar Tom Homan said the existing facility there would be expanded and managed by immigration and customs application (ICE).

He said that migrants could be transported there directly after being captured in the sea by the US coastal security and that the “highest” standards for retention would be applied.

It is not clear how much the facility will cost or when it will be completed.

The Cuba government has quickly condemned the plan, accusing the United States of torture and illegal detention of a “occupied” land.

Trump’s message came when he signed the so -called Laken Riley law in the law, which requires undocumented immigrants who were arrested for theft or violent crimes to be prisoned in anticipation of a lawsuit.

The bill, named after a nursing student in Georgia, who was killed last year by a Venezuelan migrant, was approved by Congress last week, an early legislative victory for the administration.

At a signature ceremony in the Eastern Room of the White House, Trump said that the executive order of the new Guantanamo would instruct the defense and internal security departments to “begin to prepare” the facility with 30,000 beds.

“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even believe the parties to hold them because we don’t want them to come back,” he told the migrants. “So we’ll send them to Guantanamo … It’s a difficult place to get out.”

According to Trump, the facility will double the capacity of the United States to hold undocumented migrants.

The United States already uses a Guantanamo facility – known as the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) – for decades and through various administrations, Republican and Democrats.

In a report in 2024, the International Refugee Assistance (IRAP) project accused the government of secretly kept migrants there in “inhuman” conditions for an indefinite period after detained them at sea.

GMOC has mainly housed migrants taken into the sea and has recently been the subject of a request for freedom of information from the American Union for Civil Liberties to disclose the site records.

The Biden administration replied that “it was not a detention and none of the migrants there was detained.”

However, the Trump administration says that the planned expanded facility is very intended as a detention center.

Congress is reported to ask Congress to finance the expansion of the existing detention facility, as part of the cost bill that Republicans are working for assembly.

Asked by White House Reporters, Minister of Interior Security Christie Nov said only that the money will be allocated through “reconciliation and budget loans”.

The Guantanamo Military Prison has been detained in US arrest for decades following the September 11 attacks against the United States in 2001.

In his peak, he held hundreds of prisoners, and several democratic presidents, including Barack Obama, swore to close him. There are currently 15 prisoners there.

The news of the expansion of the facility has been welcomed by a quick condemnation by the Cuban government, which has long considered the Guantanamo Pay “occupied” and denied the existence of an American naval base on the island since Fidel Castro settled into power in 1959.

“In the Brutality Act, the new US government has announced that it will be closed, at the Naval Base in Guantanamo, located in illegally occupied Cuban territory, thousands of forcibly erupted migrants, which will be located near known prisons for torture and illegal detention,” ” Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Cannel wrote to X.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the announcement shows “contempt for human status and international law”.