Trump orders expansion of migrant detention camp in Guantanamo

STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the expansion of a migrant detention 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. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo 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. And tough. That's a tough that's a tough place to get out of." The U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility - separate from the high-security U.S. prison for foreign terrorism suspects. It has been used on occasion for decades, including to hold Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea.Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump's plan "an act of brutality." New U.S. border czar Tom Homan said later on Wednesday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would run the expanded facility. He told reporters the center would be used for the quote "worst of the worst."Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the administration was working with Congress to determine the cost of the project. The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was set up by President George W. Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. There are 15 detainees left in the prison.Trump’s two Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to shut Guantanamo down. However, Trump has vowed to keep it open.Pro-refugee groups have called for the Guantanamo migrant facility to be closed and for Congress to investigate alleged abuses there.

STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the expansion of a migrant detention 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. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo 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.

And tough. That's a tough that's a tough place to get out of." The U.

S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility - separate from the high-security U.S.

prison for foreign terrorism suspects. It has been used on occasion for decades, including to hold Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump's plan "an act of brutality.

" New U.S. border czar Tom Homan said later on Wednesday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would run the expanded facility.

He told reporters the center would be used for the quote "worst of the worst." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the administration was working with Congress to determine the cost of the project. The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was set up by President George W.

Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. There are 15 detainees left in the prison.

Trump’s two Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to shut Guantanamo down. However, Trump has vowed to keep it open. Pro-refugee groups have called for the Guantanamo migrant facility to be closed and for Congress to investigate alleged abuses there.

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