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 on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

On May 3, 2019, a Miami Air flight slid into St. Johns River at NAS Jacksonville. 22 passengers suffered minor injuries and three pets on board died.

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.

Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the Laken Riley Act at the White House Wednesday afternoon.

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will hold migrants at the notorious Guantanamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often shrouded in secrecy, is a sprawling facility divided into multiple compounds, each with varying levels of security and accommodation.

From Guantanamo Bay to freezes on hiring and strange grant funding, the second Trump administration has incredible momentum.