Donald Trump's brutal vow to send 30,000 'worst of the worst' migrants to Guantanamo Bay
Donald Trump's brutal vow to send 30,000 'worst of the worst' migrants to Guantanamo Bay
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Donald Trump wants to house 30,000 illegal migrants at Guantanamo Bay. The US President today told how he intends for the "worst of the worst" migrants to be kept under lock and key, and noted how "tough" it is to escape from the US military base in Cuba.
It is the latest move in Trump's unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration in the US, which began the moment the 78-year-old Republican entered office last week. Speaking today, Trump described some of the migrants in his country as "the worst criminal illegal aliens".
But Guantanamo Bay has historically been used to hold terror suspects since 9/11 and current detainees include the accused mastermind of the attack. Trump reversed a Barack Obama administration order to keep Guantanamo open in 2018, after the George W. Bush administration used the facility to detain "illegal enemy combatants" during the "War on Terror.".
Speaking today at the White House, Trump said: "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back.
"So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo Bay. This will double our capacity immediately, and tough. That's a tough - that's a tough place to get out of.". The world leader signed the Laken Riley Act, which puts his idea into motion as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to conduct raids across the country. Deportation flights have left the United States daily – with the administration putting out images of the effort.
