01/30/2025

Trump Announces up to 30,000 Migrants Will Be Sent to Guantanamo Bay

The existing migrant facility at the naval base is separate from the detention center

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants.

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—that has been used on occasion for decades, including to hold Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea.

Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said later on Wednesday that the administration would expand the already existing facility and that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would run it.

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