Politics
NEW: Trump To Send Most Dangerous Illegal Aliens To Guantanamo Bay
President Donald Trump isn’t waiting around to see whether many countries south of the border are willing to accept their illegal denizens without complaint. Instead, he plans to sock away the most dangerous deportees at Guantanamo Bay.
The military base, made notorious for quartering the architects of the 9/11 attacks and thousands of others captured during the war on terror, is currently without many occupants but can house as many as 30,000. Trump will send “criminal illegal aliens” there, he said Wednesday, adding it’s a “hard place to get out of.”
“Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said. “Most people don’t even know about it.”
The President actually signed a memorandum, which, while distinct from an executive order, still has legal effect. The memorandum encourages U.S. military officials to coordinate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies tasked with conducting mass deportation efforts.
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump told reporters, according to Fox News. “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.”
He added, “It’s a tough place to get out of” and the change would move America one step closer to “eliminating the scourge” of violent illegal immigrant activity in the U.S.
President Trump’s direction drew swift condemnation from Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who called the housing of 30,000 illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay an “act of brutality.”
“In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory [Cuba], of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention,” he said in a translated post on X.
The announcement was supported by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the latter having served at Guantanamo in the National Guard.
“The [Department of Defense} – in conjunction with [Homeland Security] – will immediately expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (‘Gitmo’) to Full Capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens we have deported,” Hegseth said in a post on X.
“Gitmo has been used for DECADES, including under Democrat presidents like Bill Clinton, to temporarily house migrants. This is not the detention facilities (where I served) for Al Qaeda; this is using specific facilities for migrants/illegals on other parts of the naval station.”
Late last week, ICE began publicly updating the number of arrests and deportations it made each day. By Sunday, the number had surpassed 1,000, and it is expected to grow since President Trump deputized agents from other federal departments to assist in the nationwide effort. The DHS said “law enforcement officials have removed and returned 7,300 illegal aliens” since its work began.
“969 TOTAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ARRESTS by ICE were recorded yesterday, January 27, 2025,” the White House shared on X. “HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORST.”
The post includes photos of men convicted of child rape and others linked to gang or terrorist organizations.
