President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is ordering officials to establish a massive migrant detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He made the announcement during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, which allows authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
President Trump signed a memo ordering the preparation of a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to house deported migrants.
Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the Laken Riley Act at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
Donald Trump has led an unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration in the US - a regime which has caused concern among many communities and stars, including Selena Gomez
Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Here’s a look at how the idea of sending struggling migrants to one of the strictest prisons in the world can end up going against Trump.
President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.
A U.S. Air Force jet with 80 migrants that left Texas for Guatemala charted a path around Mexico because it couldn't fly over the country, according to a U.S. official. The Mexican government said it never denied permission.
Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.
If Jimmy Kimmel was his signature mocking self over Trump's plane crash callousness, Stephen Colbert was livid.