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Trump orders preparation at Guantanamo Bay for detention of 30,000 migrants

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STORY: Trump orders preparation at Guantanamo Bay for detention of 30,000 migrants
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 29, 2025
DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:07
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE (English): DONALD TRUMP, U.S. President
2. various of U.S. President Donald Trump signing The Laken Riley Act

STORYLINE:

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will instruct the Pentagon and the Homeland Security Department to prepare a facility for 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. naval base located on the southeastern coast of Cuba.

SOUNDBITE (English): DONALD TRUMP, U.S. President
"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. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo 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 Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately."

Trump made the remarks before he signed the Laken Riley Act at the White House.

The Laken Riley Act, which mandates the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, was approved by Congress earlier this month. It marks the first major legislation of the new administration.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN that the base could be reserved to detain what she described as "the worst of the worst."

During his campaign, Trump promised to carry out large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants once he took office. After his inauguration on Jan. 20, deportation operations have ramped up in several parts of the United States, reportedly focusing on criminals.

On Sunday alone, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made nearly 1,000 arrests, with lots of activity taking place in the southeastern part of the country, Fox News cited various ICE field offices as saying.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Washington, D.C.
(XHTV)

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