By Jason Hopkins | Daily Caller
President Donald Trump ordered his administration to send tens of thousands of illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay to help aid in his large-scale detention and deportation operation.
For more than two decades, the Cuba-based Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has been used to hold suspected terrorists. While speaking at a ceremony for the signing of the Laken Riley Act, the president revealed that he would also be ordering the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to construct a facility at the base to hold as many as 30,000 illegal migrants in an area distinct from where suspected terrorists are currently detained.
This is not the first time the U.S. has utilized Guantanamo Bay for migrant detention. The Clinton administration previously housed thousands of Haitian nationals at the naval base during the 1990s, the Obama administration considered similar measures after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the Biden administration also mulled the idea.