president Donald Trump A memorandum signed on Wednesday, which is taking preparations for a facility to accommodate thousands of migrants in the American military camp in Guantenamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an attempt to “stop invading the border.”
“He directed the Minister of Defense and Minister of Internal Security to take all appropriate measures to expand the immigrant operations center in the Gulf of the Maritime Station in Guantanamo to the full ability to provide an additional detention space for high criminal foreigners in the United States.” The memo to the Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Defense says.
Trump inspected the guidance ATa The signing ceremony For Laken Riley Law, a migration detention procedure, Saying that he will do “Instructions to the defense and internal security departments to start preparing the 30,000 migrant facility in Guantenamo Bay.”
“Most people do not know this. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst illegal foreigners who threaten the American people. Some of them are very bad so that we do not trust countries in keeping them, because we do not continue to do so and added:” I want them returning. “
Defense Secretary Higseth House He said on Wednesday night that the naval base “is an ideal place” for Trump’s collective deportation plans.
“Transfer them to Guantenamo Bay, where it can be safely preserved until they are deported to their final location, their country of origin,” said Higseth in Fox News. “We know that we can implement it, and the Ministry of Defense is ready to do everything we can.”
Guantanamo’s announcement acquired many Pentagon’s officials, according to five defense officials.
One of the officials said that Guantanamo mission will be the mission of the Ministry of National Security. The official said it is unclear whether the army will participate, but the Pentagon has no orders or instructions from the White House behind the memo.
The officials who were surprised by Trump’s announcement said they did not know the number of family for migrants in Guantanamo or whether it was a short or long -term task. They said there are no plans to upgrade or change military facilities there.
“We have reduced this task,” said one of the officials in charge of the Gantenamo Bay.
A separate center can be expanded for migrants in the camp – with the help of military construction – run by DHS.
“There may be some resources that can be created for the worst in the worst in Guantenamo Bay” and that Trump and the Ministry of National Security are resources.
The Gulfamo Bay became a detention site where the detainees were first sent in 2002 under the leadership of President George W. Bush after September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. President Joe Biden said when he was in office, he wanted it Close the detention facilityAs he did President Barack Obama. It was not successful.
Ministry of Defense He said this month 15 retained in Guantenamo Bay remains after that transfer 11 Yemeni detainees to Amman after they were held at Al Qaeda for more than two decades.
Trump has made other efforts to eliminate immigrants who have lived in the United States illegally since the start of his second term.
During his first week in office, Trump announced a national emergency on the border that could allow the Pentagon to deploy the army, including the National Guard, on the border. It has also signed a large number of Executive orders It aims to close illegal immigration on the southern border and deport millions of people who illegally crossed the United States.
