More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, here we are in the very same place we’ve been for endless years—on pause.
President Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
The president says up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States could be housed at the facility in Cuba, but it wasn't immediately clear how the plan would be implemented.
President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that instructs the Pentagon and HHS to prepare 30,000 beds at Guantanamo to house undocumented criminal migrants.
US President Donald Trump announced plans to detain 'criminal illegal aliens' at Guantanamo Bay, a facility known for housing terrorism suspects. He is directing the opening of a detention center inside of Guantanamo Bay,
President Trump says he plans to use a migrant holding facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house up to 30,000 migrants deported from the United States.
If the Pentagon were ever to get courts’ leeway to withdraw a pledge not to seek the death penalty, the United States says, it should be for the alleged mastermind.
Guantanamo Bay has drawn worldwide controversy over alleged violations of torture and abuse of detainees. Previous US presidents have reduced inmate numbers and sought to shut it down. Now Donald Trump has not only vowed to keep it open, but plans to send 30,000 migrants there.
The Migrant Operations Center is used for people intercepted trying to illegally reach the U.S. by boat. Most are from Haiti and Cuba.
Guantanamo Bay, a US military prison in Cuba, has housed terrorism suspects since 2002. Under Trump, plans to detain 30,000 migrants emerged.