President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned President Donald Trump's announcement that 30,000 deported migrants would be housed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. Díaz-Canel called the move an "act of brutality" and said the base is "illegally occupied" in Cuba in a post to X on Wednesday.

In his first interview since being sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth sought to clarify how the federal government plans to use Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants being deported from the United States.

President Trump said he is signing an executive order on Wednesday to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported migrants. The order will direct the Department of

WASHINGTON—President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to construct a facility for holding as many as 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. Navy base in Cuba would be used to “contain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.

Now the base could have yet another new incarnation — playing a key role in President Donald Trump’s immigration blitz . The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects,