{"id":14651,"date":"2025-01-29T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:46:51","slug":"donald-trump-says-us-will-send-some-immigrants-to-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=14651","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says US will send some immigrants to Guant\u00e1namo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=62ce0749-c00a-4c8a-8332-c25e0860ade1&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare the US naval base in Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba to receive thousands of immigrants with criminal records. <\/p>\n<p>The US president announced the plan from the White House on Wednesday, in a move that would massively expand the use of a facility that has been the destination for high-profile terrorism suspects since 2002. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the Trump administration tries to rapidly implement a promised crackdown on undocumented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/us-immigration\" data-trackable=\"link\">immigrants<\/a>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/eedd75e9-db50-405f-a373-3a50194e3d47\" data-trackable=\"link\">first raids in major cities<\/a> and the deployment of troops to the Mexican border. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 30,000 beds in Guant\u00e1namo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> said. \u201cSome of them are so bad we don\u2019t even trust the countries to hold them. Because we don\u2019t want them coming back, so we\u2019re going to send them out to Guant\u00e1namo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been putting heavy pressure on countries including Mexico and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2a9dc578-6d93-429e-a4f8-ad725812e9c0\" data-trackable=\"link\">Colombia<\/a> to accept immigrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/59232a13-f7e2-40cd-af73-4035037cb3b3\" data-trackable=\"link\">sent from the US<\/a> back to their countries of origin, but his comments suggest some would be transferred to the military base in Cuba instead. <\/p>\n<p>The president said he was asking the US departments of defence and the homeland security to \u201cbegin preparing\u201d the Guant\u00e1namo Bay facility to house the migrants. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will double our capacity immediately, right? It\u2019s a tough place to get out of,\u201d Trump added. He later signed a memorandum to implement the plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going after these guys,\u201d Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, speaking alongside Tom Homan, Trump\u2019s border tsar. <\/p>\n<p>Homan said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would run the facility in Cuba. \u201cThere\u2019s already a migrant centre there, it\u2019s been there for decades. So we\u2019re just going to expand upon that existing migrant centre,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The US naval base at Guant\u00e1namo Bay has housed migrants in the past, including refugees from Haiti, but not on the scale Trump suggested in his comments on Wednesday. During his presidential campaign last year, he repeatedly pledged mass deportations targeting the estimated 11mn undocumented immigrants in the US, though administration officials have said the initial priority would be to deport those with criminal records. <\/p>\n<p>The naval base on the island has been leased to the US by Cuba since 1903, and has continued to be used despite a decades-long economic embargo Washington has maintained on the island nation. The prison gained notoriety during the \u2018war on terror\u2019 for the US\u2019s alleged torture and mistreatment of people held in the facility. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/62ce0749-c00a-4c8a-8332-c25e0860ade1\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}