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Trump Tells Pentagon to Prepare Mass Detention Camp for 30,000 Immigrants at Guantánamo

HeadlineJan 30, 2025

President Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law, which allows federal immigration authorities to indefinitely detain undocumented immigrants arrested for certain nonviolent crimes without due process. Forty-six Democrats from the House and 12 from the Senate joined their Republican colleagues in voting in favor. At the signing ceremony for the first piece of legislation of his second term, Trump announced plans to send “the worst criminal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay. The military was reportedly unaware of Trump’s plan, which would require new infrastructure to house up to 30,000 people. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said, “The U.S. government’s decision to imprison migrants at the Guantánamo Naval Base, in an enclave where it created torture and indefinite detention centers, shows contempt for the human condition and international law.”

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