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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has ordered his medication to marque country astatine Guantanamo Bay for “high-priority transgression aliens” who are rounded up during wide deportations.
The United States has antecedently held a tiny fig of migrants wrong Naval Station Guantanamo Bay successful Cuba. Following the Sept. 11 panic attacks connected the U.S., a detention installation astatine the tract has housed panic suspects and captured combatants.
During a bill-signing Wednesday, Trump said determination is perchance abstraction for up to 30,000 migrants who are considered dangerous, but the nonstop capableness wasn’t instantly clear.
The Migrant Operations Center astatine Guantanamo traditionally has held foreigners detained astatine sea, galore from Haiti and Cuba, The Associated Press reported.
“I hereby nonstop the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to instrumentality each due actions to grow the Migrant Operations Center astatine Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to afloat capableness to supply further detention abstraction for high-priority transgression aliens unlawfully contiguous successful the United States,” the president said successful a memo.
Trump said the directive “is issued successful bid to halt the borderline invasion, dismantle transgression cartels, and reconstruct nationalist sovereignty.”
Cuba’s overseas minister, Bruno Rodríguez, blasted the announcement connected the societal media level X, the AP said.
“The US government’s determination to imprison migrants astatine the Guantanamo Naval Base, successful an enclave wherever it created torture and indefinite detention centers, shows contempt for the quality information and planetary law,” helium said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
