Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is ordering officials to establish a massive migrant detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He made the announcement during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, which allows authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
US has held migrants at Guantánamo Bay before, but Trump’s approach is different
In the 1990s, the U.S. used Guantánamo Bay to hold Haitian and Cuban immigrants intercepted at sea. The Trump administration is now sending to Guantánamo people who were arrested on U.S. soil. That hasn’t happened before.
The first U.S. military flight carrying detained migrants to Guantánamo Bay departed on Tuesday. Here's what to know about ...
The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail ...
President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".
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