Trump Plans to Use Guantanamo Military Prison for Migrants (2)

President Donald Trump said he was signing an executive order asking the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to examine creating a facility at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay that could house as many as 30,000 undocumented migrants.

“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said Wednesday as he signed the Laken Riley Act requiring the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of crimes.

Trump said the Guantanamo effort could double US capacity for migrant ...