President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as a detention site for tens of thousands of immigrants described as "high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

Where is Guantanamo Bay? Here's what to know about mass detention facility that President Donald Trump plans to use to house migrants.

President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense to ready facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 30,000 migrants.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

President Trump announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center for migrants inside of Guantanamo Bay.

President Donald Trump said that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.”

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

The immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who will be sent to the detention facility are those who have committed crimes, President Trump said.

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

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