Trump says US will send some migrants to Guantanamo Bay

US President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a migrant detention facility in the Gulf of Guantanamo, who said he would carry up to 30,000 people.

He said that the facility at the US Navy base in Cuba, which will be separate from its security military imprisonment, will include “the worst illegal foreigners threatening the American people.”

The Gunaamo Bay has long been used to house immigrants, a practice that some human rights groups criticized.

Later on Wednesday, Tom Human said, “The Tsar border border” that the current facility there will be expanded and managed by enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE).

He said that the migrants there can be transferred immediately after their objection to the sea by the American Coast Guard, and that the “higher” detention criteria will be applied.

It is not clear how much cost of the facility or when it will be completed.

The Cuba government quickly condemned the plan, accusing the United States of torture and illegal detention on the “occupied” lands.

Trump’s announcement came while signing the so -called Riley Law in the law, which requires non -documented immigrants who were arrested on charges of theft or violent crimes in prison awaiting trial.

The draft law, which was called the name of a nursing student in Georgia, who was killed last year by the Venezuelan immigrant, was approved by Congress last week, a early legislative victory for the administration.

At a signing ceremony in the eastern room of the White House, Trump said the executive order for the new Guantanamo will show the defense and internal security sections “start preparing” the facility of 30,000 beds.

He said about the immigrants: “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 … it’s a difficult place to go out.”

According to Trump, the facility will double the American ability to retain uncomfortable immigrants.

The United States is already using a facility in Guantanamo – known as the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) – for decades and through various departments, Republican and Democratic.

In the 2024 report, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) accused the government of detention of migrants secretly there in “inhumane” conditions indefinitely after they were held at sea.

GMOC has mainly dedicated migrants at sea, and recently the subject of requesting freedom of information by the American Civil Liberties Union to detect records about the site.

The Biden administration replied that it is “not a detention facility and none of the immigrants are being held there.”

However, the Trump administration says the planned expanded facility is largely intended as a detention center.

According to what was reported, Congress will be required to finance the expansion of the current detention facility as part of the draft spending law that Republicans are working to assemble.

When the White House correspondents were asked, the Minister of Internal Security Christie sleep said only that the money will be allocated through “reconciliation and allocations”.

The Military Prison in Guantanamo was detained for decades of detainees who were held in the United States after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

At its peak, hundreds of prisoners held, and many Democratic presidents, including Barack Obama, pledged to close it. There are 15 prisoners currently being held there.

News of the expansion of the facility was met with a rapid condemnation by the Cuban government, which has long been considered the Gulf of Guantanamo “busy” and has denounced the presence of an American naval base on the island since Fidel Castro invaded power in 1959.

“In the brutality law, the new government of the United States announced that it will be imprisoned, at the naval base in Guantanamo, which is illegally occupied on the Cuban territory, thousands of immigrants who were forcibly excluded, who will be near well -known and illegal torture prisons,” Cuban President Miguel Diaz Kanel wrote on X.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the announcement showed “contempt for the humanitarian situation and international law.”