Trump orders new migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
Donald Trump signed an order to build a facility for criminal migrants at the American military base in Guantanamo. The facility is intended to accommodate 30,000 people.
Trump announced that he instructed the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to build a facility for migrants, accommodating 30,000 people.
"Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. This will double our capacity immediately," Trump stated. "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 added.
The details of the order signed on Wednesday have not been disclosed yet. It is not known who will be sent there, what status they will have, or how they will be able to leave the facility.
The gates of Guantanamo
Let's recall that Guantanamo houses a prison administered by the United States, located on the grounds of the United States Naval Base. This facility, with a notorious reputation, has been used for years to detain individuals suspected of any connection to Islamic terrorists.
Initially, it was a place for detaining jihadists and suspected terrorists from countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, who could pose any threat. The decision was justified by the so-called war on terror initiated after the September 11 attacks. Those suspected of being members of Al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters ended up there.
Based on a military order by President George W. Bush concerning the "detention, treatment, and trial" of non-U.S. citizens in the war on terror, individuals could be held there indefinitely without trial or charges. They were subjected to torture and remained in terrible conditions. Most of them, as it was later determined, had no connection to terrorists or hostile intentions toward the USA.
