“We will have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst illegal, criminal immigrants, which are a threat to the American people,” Trump said in statements in the White House
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Wednesday, January 29, a memo so that the Pentagon and the National Security Department enable 30,000 beds in the Naval Base of Guantanamo, located in Cuba, in order to stop undocumented migrants.
The text of the Memorando speaks of expanding the current center “until its full capacity” without indicating a specific figure, although in statements during an act at the White House Trump said there will be 30,000 beds.
“We will have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to arrest the worst illegal, criminal immigrants, which are a threat to the American people,” Trump said in statements in the White House, on the occasion of the signing of a law against migrants with minor crimes.
The president of the US said that some of the migrants “are so dangerous that we do not even trust their countries of origin so that they are left, because we do not want them to return. So we will send them to Guantanamo ».
«It’s a hard place. It is a place that is difficult to leave, ”he added.
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The Pentagon operates at the Guantanamo base a detention center for migrants, which independently manages the prison destined for terrorism suspects.
Migrants who arrive at the Guantanamo base are those that US authorities intercept in the sea when they try to reach the country’s coasts, mainly from Cuba and Haiti.
The migrant population at the base is usually very low. According to data published by The New York Timesbetween 2020 and 2023 the center only housed 37 people.
The Guantanamo Base Detention field opened in 2002 by order of then President George W. Bush to retain accused of terrorism in the framework of the “Global War against Terrorism” after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Guantanamo base works in a legal vacuum where the same legal guarantees in migratory matters that govern American continental territory are not applied.
The situation has been historically opaque, with little public information about what is happening there.
A report published in September 2024 by The New York Timesbased on internal government reports, he revealed that detainees face precarious conditions in Guantanam They are full of rats.
With EFE information
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