US President Donald Trump has announced plans to build a 30,000-bed migrant detention facility at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, separate from the existing high-security prison.
The facility, managed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will house migrants, including those intercepted at sea, whom Trump referred to as the “worst criminal illegal aliens.”
This announcement follows Trump’s signing of the Laken Riley Act, which mandates the jailing of undocumented immigrants accused of violent crimes. The act is named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by a Venezuelan migrant.
The Cuban government has condemned the move, calling it illegal and inhumane, as Guantanamo Bay has been historically controversial due to allegations of detainee mistreatment.
