Trump moves to detain dangerous migrants at Guantanamo
Trump announced plans to send criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay. According to the latest information, additional forces have already been deployed there.
The White House announced that, in line with President Donald Trump's previous promise, additional forces have arrived at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba to prepare space for deported migrants who will be detained there.
Trump aims to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay
President Donald Trump signed an order on January 29 to construct a detention centre for dangerous criminal migrants at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. Trump also signed a law requiring federal authorities to detain all immigrants accused of crimes.
As Trump stated during the Wednesday ceremony, he instructed the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to "begin building" a facility for migrants, accommodating approximately 33,000 people to detain the most dangerous illegal criminal immigrants posing a threat to Americans.
- 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 to Guantanamo... it's a tough place to get ou - Trump declared.
What's currently at Guantanamo Bay?
Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay base has served as a detention centre for individuals suspected of terrorism, whom US authorities have been unable to formally charge. Previously, it housed a migrant centre, primarily for Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted at sea. The legality of both the first and second centres has been questioned.
Alongside the Guantanamo order, Trump signed the first law of his second term, the Laken Riley Act. The law signed by Trump - named after a student murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela - mandates the indefinite detention by federal authorities under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of all immigrants accused of theft, including shoplifting, assaults on police officers, as well as acts causing injury or death to others, such as driving under the influence. The regulations apply to immigrants residing in the USA both legally and illegally.
