US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign Laken Riley, in the White House, in Washington, United States, January 29, 2025.
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president Donald Trump He said on Wednesday that he would order his administration to prepare the Gulf of Guantanamo, the American military base on the island of Cuba, where terrorists were detained for decades, to detain migrants.
Trump, at a signing ceremony The Immigration Decrease Bill In the law, he said that he would also sign an executive order on Wednesday directing defense and internal security departments to the “migrant attachment” in ready Guantanamo.
Trump said that there are thousands of family in Guantanamo “detention of the worst illegal foreigners.”
“We don't want to return,” Trump said. “So we will send them to Guantanamo.”
Guantanamo migrants have held decades, although the maximum facility is unclear. The New York Times reported, referring to the Ministry of Internal Security, only Four immigrants They were detained there as of February.
The global detention project, a research center calling for the rights of detainees On its website The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center has 130 capacity.
On Wednesday, Trump claimed that Guantanamo had 30,000 beds, and that opening it to detention of migrants “will double our ability immediately.”
He added: “It is a difficult place to get out of it.”
Trump, since he took office last week, has taken many measures to take strict measures against the illegal American border crossings and to collective migrants.
The illegal crossings have risen sharply during the Biden administration, but they fell in recent months of the president Joe Bidenterm.
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