The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the ''worst criminal aliens'' to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay,

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The president said the facility at the U.S. naval base could house as many as 30,000 people

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday (Jan 29) he planned to detain "criminal illegal aliens" at the notorious Guantanamo Bay military prison, used for holding terror

President Donald Trump said he’s signing an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.