President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally

Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president Joe Biden. "The releases have not resumed," Camila Rodriguez of the Mexico-based NGO Justicia 11J,

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

Trump said he doesn’t trust some countries to hold potential deportees who have been convicted of serious crimes

The president issued an executive order to construct a detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he plans to send 30,000 criminal illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to ensure they don't return.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned President Donald Trump's announcement that 30,000 deported migrants would be housed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. Díaz-Canel called the move an "act of brutality" and said the base is "illegally occupied" in Cuba in a post to X on Wednesday.

Trump says he’ll send the ‘worst’ criminal migrants to Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay detention center was used to house those who the U.S. suspected as terrorists.

Prior to signing the fascistic Laken Riley Act into law, Trump ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to begin preparations for housing 30,000 human beings at the US Navy base.

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.