Donald Trump made the announcement on Wednesday (Image: GETTY)
US President Donald Trump has announced he is preparing a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Trump said he is planning to open a detention centre at the site of a US military base in Cuba to hold up to 30,000 migrants living illegally in the United States.
The President said the facility would be used to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.
“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 Guantanmo,” he added. “This will double our capacity immediately, right? And, tough.”
He made the announcement shortly before signing the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation on Wednesday evening.
The bipartisan measure means that people who are in the US illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.
After signing the measure into Law, Mr Trump said: “Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
“Most people don’t even know about it.”
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