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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks during an event to sign the law of Laken Riley, at the White House in Washington on January 29, 2025.
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President Donald Trump On Wednesday, he said that he will order his administration to prepare Guantanamo Bay, the US military base in Cuba, where terrorism suspects have been delayed for decades, to stop migrants.
Trump, in a ceremony to sign a Immigration Detention Law Project In the law, he said that he would also sign an executive order on Wednesday that instructs his defense and national security departments to the “migrant installation” of Guantanamo.
Trump said there are thousands of beds in Guantanamo to “detain illegal criminal foreigners.”
“We don’t want them to come back,” Trump said. “So we will send them to Guantanamo.”
Guantanamo has kept migrants for decades, although the maximum installation capacity is not clear. The New York Times, citing the National Security Department, reported that only Four migrants They were arrested there from February.
The global detention project, a research center that advocates the rights of detainees, suggests on your website that the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center has a capacity of 130.
Trump said Wednesday that Guantanamo has 30,000 beds, and that opening it to stop migrants “will double our capacity immediately.”
He added: “It is a difficult place to leave.”
Trump, since he assumed the position last week, has taken numerous measures to take energetic measures against the illegal border crossings of the USA. And deported to the migrants undocumented in mass.
The illegal crosses increased abruptly during the presidency of President Joe Biden, but fell in the last months of the Democrat’s mandate.
The Guantanamo Bay Detention Center has been used since 2002 to keep hundreds of terrorism suspected people and other crimes. Established during the “war on terror” that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States, Guantanamo Bay has had more than 780 detainees in total, The Times reported.
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