The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented migrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.
Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay Press secretary says at least two deportation flights to Cuban base of undocumented immigrants ‘under way’.
Donald Trump last week signed an executive order to prepare a huge detention camp at the navy base at Guantánamo that he said could house up to 30,000 people deported from the US.
Leavitt told Fox that Trump was determined to complete what he has previously called “the largest deportation effort in American history”, of 15 million to 20 million people, for which he has said he would engage the military to help achieve it.
The news of the first flights, containing deportees of unknown nationality, comes a day after El Salvador offered to accept undocumented migrants from any country – and even incarcerated US citizens.
