Trump plan to open migrant detention centre at Guantánamo Bay an ‘act of brutality’, Cuban president says – US politics live
Trump plan to open migrant detention centre at Guantánamo Bay an ‘act of brutality’, Cuban president says – US politics live
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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the latest news from US politics. First up, the Cuban president has described President Trump’s announcement of plans for a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay as an “act of brutality”. Writing on X, Miguel Díaz-Canel said the move would place people deported from the US “next to well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention”.
On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order instructing officials to prepare a facility capable of holding 30,000 people at the naval base, which over the past two decades has been used primarily to hold suspects accused of terrorism-related offences, with few ever charged or convicted.
