{"id":2396696,"date":"2025-01-29T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-preparing-to-send-30000-illegal-immigrants-to-gitmo-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:17:38","slug":"trump-preparing-to-send-30000-illegal-immigrants-to-gitmo-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-preparing-to-send-30000-illegal-immigrants-to-gitmo-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump preparing to send 30,000 illegal immigrants to Gitmo &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-preparing-to-send-30000-illegal-immigrants-to-gitmo-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2396696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President donald Trump announced plans to utilize the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for a new\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-open-border-endangering-texas-2\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s open border endangering Texas\">immigrant detention center<\/a>, aimed at \u200chousing up to 30,000\u2062 peopel. This \u200bdeclaration came\u2062 during the signing of the Laken riley Act\u2064 at the\u2064 White House, where he instructed the Departments of Defense \u200dand homeland\u2063 Security to begin preparations for the facility. Trump emphasized the need to detain what he described as &#8220;the worst criminal illegal aliens&#8221; who \u200dpose threats\u200b to\u200c American safety, asserting\u200c that\u200d some\u2064 cannot be safely returned to\u2062 their home countries. <\/p>\n<p>The proclamation has stirred controversy and \u200cis \u200bhighly likely to face meaningful opposition \u200dfrom <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">immigrant rights organizations<\/a> and Democratic lawmakers. Guantanamo,\u200c historically used for detaining suspected terrorists, has seen a dwindling inmate population, and Trump&#8217;s \u2064plan \u2063could substantially \u2063increase those numbers. While \u200cthe specifics of the detention criteria and conditions remain unclear, Trump claims this\u200d move will bring the U.S. closer to\u2063 combating \u200bmigrant crime.\u200d Immigration and \u200dCustoms Enforcement (ICE) is expected to\u2063 manage the center, maintaining \u2062that their detainment standards would \u2062be\u200c upheld.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says he&rsquo;ll use Guantanamo Bay to detain illegal immigrants<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1960521\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced plans to sign an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politicians-take-action-to-remove-russian-vodka-spirits-from-stores-in-u-s-canada\/\" title=\"Politicians Take Action to Remove Russian Vodka, Spirits from Stores in U.S., Canada\">executive order instructing<\/a> the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing a 30,000-bed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">immigrant<\/a> detention facility at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/guantanamo-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Guantanamo Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3278865\/house-passes-laken-riley-act-first-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Laken Riley Act\">Laken Riley Act<\/a> at the White House Wednesday afternoon to prepare a migrant facility at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which was used to detain suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, I&rsquo;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&rsquo;t even know about it,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Some of them are so bad, we don&rsquo;t even trust [their home] countries to hold them because we don&rsquo;t want them coming back. So we&rsquo;re going to send them out to Guantanamo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The executive action, Trump said, would bring the United States &ldquo;one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities, once and for all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The move is expected to be met with pushback from immigrant rights groups and Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, left, and White House border czar Tom Homan speak with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While initially popular, public outcry against Guantanamo grew throughout the Bush administration, and his successor, President Barack Obama, pledged in 2009 to close the facility within one year. However, opposition from Congress prevented Guantanamo&rsquo;s closure.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Guantanamo could regain a place in American foreign policy and its public consciousness. Its inmate population dwindled to just 15 people in recent years and now could swell by tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3301218\/daily-on-defense-trump-tariff-threat-tactic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"won a showdown\">won a showdown<\/a> against the government of Colombia, which had tried to refuse to take back migrants who legally reside in that country. Using Guantanamo can give the president a new option to house migrants from countries that refuse repatriation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several details of Trump&rsquo;s plan remain unknown, such as the criteria for selecting detainees, how long they will be held, and under what conditions. Nonetheless, Trump says using Guantanamo is necessary as he cracks down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-blue-state-claw-back\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Blue State Claw Back\">illegal immigration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s border czar Tom&nbsp;Homan&nbsp;told White House reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be running the migrant detention.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What you probably don&rsquo;t know, there&rsquo;s already a migrant center there, it&rsquo;s been there for decades. So we&rsquo;re just going to expand upon that existing migrant center,&rdquo; Homan said alongside Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n<p>He added that ICE has the &ldquo;highest detention standards in the industry&rdquo; and, therefore, &ldquo;Gitmo will have the highest standards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1960521\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1960521\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump plans to use Guantanamo Bay for detaining illegal immigrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3647,"featured_media":2396697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Guantanamo-Bay-Trump-illegal-immigrants.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4731,32165,36382,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2396696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gitmo","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigration-policy","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Guantanamo-Bay-Trump-illegal-immigrants.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396700,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396696\/revisions\/2396700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}