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.

President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as a detention site for tens of thousands of immigrants described as "high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.

Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday joined Fox News to announce United States military prison Guantanamo Bay would soon be prepared to house illegal migrants who had been deported form the country.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant detention facility for "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

President Donald Trump has said he wants to send 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens" to the notorious Guantanamo Bay US military base in Cuba. Making matters worse, Guantanamo is a remote, closed military base "which the US government has used to evade legal protections and public scrutiny" in the past.

Defense attorneys point to a long history of rights abuses at Guantánamo, including mistreatment of Haitian refugees.

President Trump has ordered the Cuba-based detention center to be prepped for full capacity as part of his deportation push.