President Trump said that the U.S. will get Guantanamo Bay ready to hold 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.”
He said that he would sign “an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.” He did indeed sign this order for just that.
The order doesn’t mention the number of migrants but Guantanamo Bay does not hold 30,000 people. It was built to hold 800 and has never held more than 720 people. How in the world could it hold so many more people? Perhaps the President was embellishing in order to scare migrants into self deporting?
Guantanamo has a reputation for violating international human rights standards. Even if these are the worst of the worst, the debate over waterboarding was a fairly broad consensus that no one wants to see that happening again.
