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Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare the US Navy base in Guantenamo Bay, Cuba to receive thousands of immigrants with criminal records.
The US President announced the plan from the White House on Wednesday, in a move that would widely expand the use of a facility for prominent terrorist suspects since 2002.
The move comes at a time when the Trump administration is trying to implement an appointment campaign on non -documents ImmigrantsIncluding The first raids in major cities And deploying the forces on the Mexican border.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst illegal foreigners threatening the American people,” Trump He said. “Some of them are very bad, so we do not trust countries in keeping them. Because we do not want to return, so we will send them to Guantanamo.”
Trump made a severe pressure on countries including Mexico and Colombia To accept immigrants It was sent from the United States Return to their countries of origin, but his comments indicate that some of them will be transferred to the military base in Cuba instead.
The president said he was asking the US defense and internal security departments to “start preparing” the Guantanamo Bay facility to accommodate immigrants.
“This will double our ability immediately, right? It is a difficult place to get out of it. Later a note to implement the plan.
“We are chasing these men.”
Human said that the migration enforcement agency and customs will manage the facility in Cuba. “There is already a migrant center there, it has been for decades. So we will expand at the current migrant center.”
The US Navy base in the Bay of Guanttenamo has placed immigrants in the past, including the refugees from Haiti, but not on the Trump scale proposed in his comments on Wednesday. During his presidential campaign last year, he has repeatedly pledged to collective deportation targeting immigrants with 11 million documents in the United States, although administration officials said the initial priority is the deportation of those with criminal records.
The island's naval base has been rented to the United States by Cuba since 1903, and it has continued to use it despite the economic ban that lasted for decades that Washington kept in the island's nation. The prison gained a bad reputation during the “War on Terror” due to the heroic torture of the United States and the mistreatment of persons detained in the facility.
