President Donald Trump announced plans to convert the detention of the United States into the Guantanamo Bay into Cuba into the center for unfathomable immigrants.
The announcement of surprises followed Wednesday, as the Republican president signed his first major legislation, Laken Riley Law.
Trump had campaigns For the second term of the promise to lead the campaign of “mass deportations”, targeting almost 11 million unfathomable people living in the US. Many have been in the country for decades, serving as columns for their families and communities.
AND Laken Riley Act He headed with Trump’s administration to expel as many unfathomable individuals as possible.
According to the provisions of the Law, the Ministry of Homeland Security must be unlawful to retain non-mainstays in the United States who have either been arrested or accused of burglary, theft, theft or theft. These individuals can then be subject to deportation, whether convicted of the crime.
But as Trump spoke with an audience in the White House about the act, he turned to a new announcement: New use for Guantanamo object.
“Today I also sign an executive command to instruct departments for defense and homeland security to start preparing a migrant facility of 30,000 people in Guantanamo Bay. Most people don’t even know about it, “Trump said.
Call to close the prison
Human rights organizations have long called for the closure of the custodian center of the Guantanamo Bay, citing inhumane treatment at the institution and lack of legal protection.
“Twenty years of practicing arbitrary custody without trial accompanied by torture or poor treatment is simply unacceptable for any government,” a group of experts of the United Nations said In 2022, calling Guantanamo “Ugly Chapter” in American history.
The facility was opened in 2002 as an object for suspects implanted in an American so -called “war against terrorism”, and many detainees had been held for years without trial.
Earlier this month, the object marked its 23th anniversary with a reduced number of detainees closed in their wall. President Joe Biden’s departing administration recently transferred prisoners to other countries, leaving only 15 detainees In an object.
The prison was previously closed under President Barack Obama. But Trump signed an executive order during his first term in 2018 to open the Guantanamo Bay in the foreseeable future.
He has long sought to expand the use of an object, including the transfer of new detainees.
That vision began to shape with the announcement on Wednesday, less than two weeks in his second term.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanam to attract the worst crimes of illegal aliens that threaten the American people,” Trump said. “Some of them are so bad that we do not even believe the countries to hold them, because we do not want to return, so we will send them to Guantanamo.”
Hard approach
The Republican leader has long linked immigration with crime, although studies have repeatedly shown that unfathomable people begin crimes at a much lower rate than citizens born in the US.
However, his re -selection campaign depended on the assumption that the US should have refused the “migrant invasion”, citing incidents such as Laken Riley.
Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student at Georgia University when she was killed while running in February 2024. A man convicted in her death was an unfathomable immigrant who was previously arrested for theft.
Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, spoke at an event on Wednesday, just before Trump signed his daughter’s account. Between tears she thanked the US president.
“There is no amount of tears that will ever bring back our precious Laken,” she said. “Our hope is that her life saves her lives.”
Trump has seized a bill on his decision to rearrange the Guantanamo as a migration custody center, saying that they served a similar goal.
“Today’s signatures are closer to the step closer to the eradication of the whip of migrant crime in our communities once and for all,” he said.
But Trump faced criticism for the outbreak of Nativity against immigrants – and following a stubborn action that threatens to prevent access to the gradual process, asylum and other rights.
Critics also asked whether Trump had the workforce and resources to fulfill his “mass deportation” scheme. Trump, however, said on Wednesday that the use of Guantane would “double” the immigration detention.
Nayna Gupta, director of politics at the US Immigration Council, a non -profit organization, rejected his announcement as an act of despair.
“Trump is desperate desperately to find detention beds for thousands of people who do not represent a threat of public security, but still become the target of a wasteful and cruel immigration program that makes us less safe [and] a billion dollar waste, ” wrote On social media.
