Cuba criticises opening of facility for up to 30,000 deported immigrants
Trump announced the measure as he signed an act permitting the detention of undocumented immigrants charged with theft. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York TimesDonald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that he said could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.
The US naval base outpost in Guantánamo Bay, in south-eastern Cuba, already has a facility used to house migrants picked up at sea, which is separate from the high-security prison for foreign terrorism suspects established in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks by al-Qaeda on the US.Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in November, 2023.
The executive order about Guantánamo itself came a little later on Wednesday afternoon, saying from Trump: “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified...
Since taking office on January 20th, Trump has signed a slew of executive orders aimed at cracking down on immigration, including declaring a “national emergency” paving the way to send US troops to the southern border, suspending the nation’s refugee resettlement program, and revoking temporary protected status for people fleeing humanitarian crises.
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