Trump says he'll send migrants to Guantanamo Bay hours after idea floated on Fox & Friends
Trump says he'll send migrants to Guantanamo Bay hours after idea floated on Fox & Friends
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‘We’re evaluating and talking about that right now,’ Kristi Noem said on Fox News. ‘It’s the president's decision.’. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade ended a Fox & Friends discussion on revoking Venezuelan migrants’ temporary protected status by asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if she planned on housing immigrants in a prison facility most known for housing 9/11 terror suspects.
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Calling the Guantanamo Bay prison camp an “asset,” Noem said that the administration was “evaluating” that possibility but that it was ultimately President Donald Trump’s decision. Hours after the idea was floated on Trump's favorite morning show, the president revealed that he was indeed going to use the infamous prison camp to house tens of thousands of migrants — once again showing the Trump-Fox feedback loop in real-time.
“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 declared while signing the Laken Riley Act into law. “Most people don‘t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” he added. “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. This will double our capacity immediately.”.
The protection is intended to assist people who have come to the United States and cannot safely return to their country of origin due to natural disasters, armed conflicts, or political upheaval. In the case of Venezuela, residents have fled the country as its economy has collapsed amid President Nicolás Maduro’s autocratic rule, which has also resulted in the stifling of political dissent.
