Guantanamo Bay detention centre: Donald Trump to establish 30,000-person facility to hold migrants
US President Donald Trump has revealed he will establish a 30,000-person detention centre in Guantanamo Bay to hold illegal immigrants.
The detention centre in Cuba is understood to be in the facility established in 2002 when then-President George W. Bush set up the location to hold terror suspects in the wake of the horrific September 11 terror attacks.
“Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defence and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Mr Trump said at the White House.
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Mr Trump is yet to reveal further details about the detention centre.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Mr Trump’s plan “an act of brutality”.
“In an act of brutality, the new US government announces imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied Cuban territory,” he wrote on on X.
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