By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press
President Donald Trump, who deported immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, he said on Wednesday that the United States will use a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cubato maintain tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.”
“We are going to send them to Guantanamo,” Trump said by signing the Laken Riley Law.
He later signed a presidential memorandum and said he would order federal officials to prepare the facilities to receive criminal immigrants in the United States illegally. The tsar of the Tom homan border told us Immigration and Customs Control I would execute the installation. Even so, the details of the plan were not clear immediately.
Here is a look at the United States naval base, widely known as “gitm” and its history:
How does the United States government use the base in Guantanamo Bay?
While the US Naval Base. In Cuba is better known by the suspects brought after the attacks of September 11, 2001, it has a small separate installation used for decades to keep migrants.
The migrant operations center is used for intercepted people trying to reach the United States by boat illegally. Most are from Haiti and Cuba.

The center occupies a small part of the base, includes only a handful of buildings and has no place near the ability to house the 30,000 people that Trump said it could be sent there.
“We are simply to expand that existing migrant center, Homan said to journalists.
The Migrant Detention Center operates separately from the military detention center and the courts for foreigners detained under President George W. Bush during what this administration called his “war on terror.” This installation houses 15 detainees, including the accused of September 11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That is down from its peak of almost 800.
Who will take place in Guantanamo?
The migrant detention facilities in Guantanamo will be used for “the worst of the worst,” administration officials said.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem and Homan, used the phrase when they talked to journalists outside the White House.
A White House statement was less specific, saying that the expanded installation “would provide an additional detention space for high priority criminal foreigners present in the United States and to address the needs of application of assistant immigration.”
An administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, said it would be used to house “dangerous criminals” and people who are “difficult to deport.”
Several countries refuse to accept some immigrants that the United States tries to deport.
Trump has spoken repeatedly about the dangers facing Americans of the 11 million estimated immigrants who live illegally in the United States. While immigrants are regularly accused of committing important crimes, they are a small percentage of the general population. Academic studies reviewed by peers have generally not found any link between immigration and violent crime, although the conclusions vary.
What else is known about the migrant operations center?
Bit. The non -profit international assistance project said in a report last year that people are detained in “prison” conditions. He said they were “trapped in a punitive system” indefinitely, without responsibility for the officials who handle it.
Deepa Alagesan, a group’s senior supervisor lawyer, said Wednesday that he believed to be used to have a small number of people, “in both digits,” he said.
The possibility of using it for many more immigrants worried it.
“It is definitely a terrifying perspective,” he said.
Does the United States have enough detention space for Trump’s plans?
Trump has promised to deport millions of people who live illegally in the US Around 41,000 people.
ICE stops immigrants in their processing centers and detention facilities in private, together with local prisons and prisons. It does not have facilities oriented to the arrest of families, representing approximately one third of those arrived at the southern border of the United States.
During Trump’s first mandate, he authorized the use of military bases to stop migrant children. In 2014, the then President Barack Obama depended temporarily on military bases to stop immigrant children while increasing the family detention centers of private operation to maintain many of the tens of thousands of Central American families trapped that illegally crossed the border.
The US military bases have been used repeatedly since the 1970s to accommodate the resettlement of the waves of immigrants fleeing from Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
What do lawyers say in the cases of September 11?
The decision to send immigrants to Guantanamo “should horrify us all,” said a legal defense group that since the September 11 attacks has represented dozens of men arrested at the base.
Trump’s order “sends a clear message: migrants and asylum seekers are being chosen as the new terrorist threat, which deserves to be ruled out in a prison on the island, eliminated from legal and social services and supports,” Vince Warren , Executive Director of New York. -He gives the Constitutional Rights Center based on a statement.
What is the reaction in Cuba?
The United States has leased Guantanamo de Cuba for more than a century. Cuba opposes the lease and generally rejects nominal payments for the US rental.
Government officials criticized the news on Wednesday, with President Miguel Díaz-Canel considering the decision “an act of brutality” in X and describing the base as “located in the #Cuba territory illegally occupied.”
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in X: “The decision of the United States government to imprison migrants in the Guantanamo Naval Base, in an enclave where he created torture and indefinite detention centers, shows the contempt for the human condition and international law. “
Associated Press Rebecca Santana writers and Ellen Knickmeyer contributed from Washington.
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