President Donald Trump has ordered the expansion of a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to house 30,000 undocumented immigrants, focusing on "the worst of the worst" criminals.
"I will sign an executive order directing the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a facility capable of detaining 30,000 illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay," Trump announced on January 29. "These are the worst of the worst criminals threatening the American people."
Trump Justifies Expansion
Trump stated that some of these individuals are "too dangerous" to be returned to their home countries.
"Some of these criminals are so bad that we simply cannot allow them to return to their home nations," he said. "So, we will send them to Guantanamo. This will immediately double the capacity, right?"
The president then signed a memorandum on 'additional detention space', though it did not specify exact capacity figures. Tom Homan, the official overseeing Trump’s mass deportation campaign, confirmed that the U.S. will expand existing facilities at Guantanamo Bay to detain "the worst of the worst." The facility will be operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Guantanamo’s Role in Immigration Detention
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, long known for housing terrorism suspects, also contains a separate immigration detention center used sporadically over the past decades. The U.S. has previously detained Cuban and Haitian migrants found at sea at this facility.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned Trump's move.
"The new U.S. administration has announced it will hold people at the Guantanamo Naval Base, which is illegally placed on Cuban territory," Díaz-Canel stated. "This is a brutal act."
Criticism and Human Rights Concerns
Immigrant advocacy groups have called for the closure of Guantanamo’s detention centers and urged Congress to investigate reports of human rights abuses at the facility.
Trump has made harsh immigration enforcement a priority. Since taking office on January 20, he declared a national emergency at the southern border, implementing strict deportation measures targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
On January 23, Trump’s administration began mass deportations, releasing images of migrants boarding U.S. military transport planes, handcuffed and shackled at the waist, at Fort Bliss military base in Texas.
(Sources: Reuters, AFP)
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