Washington, January 30, 2025 (TDI): After the taking over of the non-consecutive term of Donald Trump, he has enforced some executive actions to order the construction of migrant facilitation centers to hold people as many as 30,000.
Trump further said that the detention center at the Navy base camp in Cuba would be separated from high military prison zone that would house
“The worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.
According to international human rights groups, Guantanamo Bay has a history of holding illegal immigrants, criticized by rights groups.
Soon after Wednesday, Trump’s hardliner stance on border issues, his ‘’border tsar’’ Tom Homan, said the existing facility would be extended and run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
So Trump further added that the migrants could be rescued there directly after being stopped at sea by the US Navy and that the highest detention SOPs would be applied.
It is still not clear how much-estimated cost would be applied or when it would be concluded.
On the other hand, Cuba’s authorities condemned this strategic plan and blamed the US for torture and illegal detention on ‘’occupied” land.
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After all, Trump has carried out multiple executive actions, one of the actions is; he signed the so-called Laken Riley Act into Law, which needs undocumented immigrants who are detained for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trail would be in court.
In this scenario, now the question arises: Why did this bill come?
A Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan migrant was endorsed by Congress last week; it became an early legislative win for the new administration.
Signing Ceremony at White House
Trump said during the signing ceremony at the White House fresh Guantanamo executive action would guide the Departments of defence and Homeland Security to ‘’begin preparing’’ the 30,000-bed facility.
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” he said of migrants. “So we’re going to send them to Guantanamo… it’s a tough place to get out.”
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As per Trump’s thinking, this action will replicate the US’s capacity to hold illegal migrants.
Before the approval of this bill, the US had already used this facility in Guantanamo- known as the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC). In addition, this facility is headed by former administrations too, both Republican and Democrat.