WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.
Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.
The bipartisan measure means that people who are in the U.S. illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.
“We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said.
The U.S. military base in Cuba has been used to house detainees from the U.S. war on terrorism.
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