Trump orders migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay
United States President Donald Trump will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 immigrants.
The US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility — separate from the high-security US prison for foreign terrorism suspects — that has been used on occasion for decades, including to house Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea.
But a move to house tens of thousands of migrants at the base would again widen the Pentagon's role in Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
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