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."

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.

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

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,

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.

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

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.

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.

President Trump said his administration will begin preparations on building a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

While signing Laken Riley Act on Thursday, Donald Trump announced that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.