First planeloads of criminal migrants detained in President Trump’s crackdown of illegal immigration shipped to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday

‘Some of the [undocumented migrants] are so bad, we don’t even trust the [their], countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back,’ Trump said

President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 29 which directed the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security to prepare Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 detainees

‘To provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States’

The Naval base at Guantanamo Bay though typically used to house captured foreign terrorists, has always reserved a small space to house migrants caught trying to sneak into the US by sea

Per the current directives the facility would be used to house ‘the worst of the worst’ of those criminal migrants – Border Czar Tom Homan

The first two planes transporting undocumented migrants with criminal records departed to the US Naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday

The first planeloads of undocumented migrants with criminal records detained in the wake of executive orders illegal immigration by the second Trump administration have been transported to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where a small migrant detention center could be expanded to house tens of thousands.
Two planes each carrying about a dozen affected migrants departed Tuesday, from from Fort Bliss, Texas.
The president last week had announced that he was planning to house deportees at Guantanamo Bay, a facility which became synonymous with is housing housing terrorists, including the actors associated with the 9/11 attacks.
‘President Trump is not messing around, and he’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world,’ said White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirming during an appearance on the Fox Business Network that the first deportation flights to the notorious detention center were underway.

On February 2, members of the US Marines Corps deployed to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to support migrant holding operations. The first planes with illegal migrants have departed for Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday

President Trump signified his plans to expand Guantanamo’s capacity to hold illegal immigrants, signing an order on Jan. 29 directing the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the naval base for 30,000 detainees.
Guantanamo Bay has traditionally been used to house foreign terrorists captured by the US, although it has always some space with about 120 beds, reserved for house migrants caught trying to sneak into the US through the Gulf of Mexico.
‘So we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,’ Trump said while announcing the order. ‘This will double our capacity immediately, right? And, it’s a tough place to get out of, ‘ Trump said.
A memorandum was issued directing agencies to ‘take all appropriate actions to expand’ Guantanamo’s facilities ‘to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.’

President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 29, directing the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security to expand Guantanamo Bay to accommodate 30,000 detainees

Guantanamo Bay though typically used to house captured foreign terrorists, has always reserved a small space to house migrants caught trying to sneak into the US by sea

Hours after his inauguration Trump has launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration in the US, dispatching ICE agents across the country to round up thousands of illegal immigrants with criminal records in the operation’s first phases. The agency ICE has amped up arrests across the country to nearly 1,200 a day.
Guantanamo would be used to house ‘the worst of the worst’ of those criminal migrants, border czar Tom Homan said. The president had told reporters during the signing the order empowering the current raids by ICE, that he didn’t trust some of the countries to which they were deporting migrants back to hold them.
‘Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back,’ he said. ‘So we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.’

Trump directed agencies to ‘expand’ Guantanamo’s facilities ‘to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.’ It will house ‘the worst of the worst’ of those criminal migrants – Tom Homan

The facility has been leased to the US Navy by Cuba for decades. It has been used in the past to hold migrants intercepted at sea. These primarily, were from Haiti and Cuba.
The current strategy of the Trump administration mirrors a controversial policy last used during the Clinton administration to detain thousands of those Cuban and Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Bay naval base between 1994 and 1996.
In later years, about 700 terror suspects were housed there at the height of the facility’s use during President George W. Bush’s war on terror.
However, Guantanamo gained notoriety over allegations of torture and inhumane treatment of terrorists who were held there.
Today, only 15 terror suspects remain held at Guantanamo.