odanny
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It seems a very tiny majority of immigrants from Central and South America commit serious crimes, and I'm glad those will get sent to GITMO, what needs to be addressed is under what charges will you be sent to Cuba? Will you still be under U.S. jurisprudence or is there a seperate system of laws that will govern your captivity? Are those who are multiple repeat offenders eligible to be sent here, or just those who commit violent crimes? 30,000 beds is a lot of room, maybe those already in custody elsewhere will be transferred.
Biden and Harris failed so miserably on immigration, opting to do nothing, that they bear responsibility for this as well, this is a reaction to their inaction.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, outlining plans for a site outside U.S. territory where immigrants caught in his expanding deportation campaign could be sent.
Speaking at the White House before signing the Laken Riley Act, a bill expected to expand the number of immigrants held in U.S. custody for minor crimes, Trump said the massive site in Guantánamo would “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people” and be “a tough place to get out of.”
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust other countries to hold them, and we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” Trump said. “This will double our capacity immediately.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detention capacity for about 40,000 immigrants facing deportation. The largest facilities in its network have roughly 2,000 beds, so the Guantánamo military site Trump described would dwarf any location ICE oversees within the United States.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, during an interview on Fox News, said the base was “a perfect place” to hold deportees.
“Beyond the facilities used to house terrorists that many are familiar with,” Hegseth said, the base “is a naval station where it has long been, for decades, a mission of that naval station to provide for migrants and refugees and resettlements.”
Hegseth, who as a soldier in the National Guard was stationed at Guantánamo, said the detainees would not be held with terrorism suspects. Rather, the purpose of the camp would be for “temporary transit” while U.S. officials complete paperwork and make travel arrangements to send detainees to third countries if their home nations won’t accept them, he said, noting that a golf course at the base can be used to expand detention capacity with room for 6,000 people.
It was not immediately clear how migrants will be housed, how much construction may be necessary, what the operation will cost, or what kind of aircraft may be used to transport migrants to and from the base. Officials at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees operations in Cuba, Central America and South America from a headquarters in Doral, Florida, said they were sorting through details Wednesday. Trump officials have said they want immigrants living illegally in the United States to “self-deport,” and the Guantánamo camp was one of several moves that appeared aimed at scaring more people into leaving.
Biden and Harris failed so miserably on immigration, opting to do nothing, that they bear responsibility for this as well, this is a reaction to their inaction.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, outlining plans for a site outside U.S. territory where immigrants caught in his expanding deportation campaign could be sent.
Speaking at the White House before signing the Laken Riley Act, a bill expected to expand the number of immigrants held in U.S. custody for minor crimes, Trump said the massive site in Guantánamo would “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people” and be “a tough place to get out of.”
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust other countries to hold them, and we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” Trump said. “This will double our capacity immediately.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detention capacity for about 40,000 immigrants facing deportation. The largest facilities in its network have roughly 2,000 beds, so the Guantánamo military site Trump described would dwarf any location ICE oversees within the United States.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, during an interview on Fox News, said the base was “a perfect place” to hold deportees.
“Beyond the facilities used to house terrorists that many are familiar with,” Hegseth said, the base “is a naval station where it has long been, for decades, a mission of that naval station to provide for migrants and refugees and resettlements.”
Hegseth, who as a soldier in the National Guard was stationed at Guantánamo, said the detainees would not be held with terrorism suspects. Rather, the purpose of the camp would be for “temporary transit” while U.S. officials complete paperwork and make travel arrangements to send detainees to third countries if their home nations won’t accept them, he said, noting that a golf course at the base can be used to expand detention capacity with room for 6,000 people.
It was not immediately clear how migrants will be housed, how much construction may be necessary, what the operation will cost, or what kind of aircraft may be used to transport migrants to and from the base. Officials at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees operations in Cuba, Central America and South America from a headquarters in Doral, Florida, said they were sorting through details Wednesday. Trump officials have said they want immigrants living illegally in the United States to “self-deport,” and the Guantánamo camp was one of several moves that appeared aimed at scaring more people into leaving.
