Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth arrived on Tuesday at the Guantanamo Bay on Cuba, and his first trip to the Navy installation since it was confirmed at the spot in January.
Hegsetth was expected to receive briefings about all missionary operations in the base, including custody in which illegal migrants were deported from the United States settled before they took to their native countries.
“He arrived at the Guantanamo Navy Station on the first lines of the war against the US southern border,” the secretary wrote on X.
It was also expected that they would meet with troops at the base and on the USS Thomas Hudner. Pictures posted on Hegseth’s X account show him a meeting and eating with troops stationed in Gitmo.
Defense Minister Hegsetth welcomes the troops at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Hegsetth arrived on a military installation on Tuesday, and the first visit is there since it was confirmed in January. (@Secdef via x)
“These warriors directly support the concern and deportation of dangerous illegal foreigners,” he wrote. “We can’t thank them enough or their families.”
The base is best known for detention suspects for terrorism, including those behind September 11, 2001, attacks. President Donald Trump approved the detention of illegal immigrants at the facility shortly after he took his duty on January 20th.
In January, Trump said he wanted to expand the immigrant detention center in Guantánam to hold as many as 30,000 people.
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Defense Minister Pete Hegsetth eaten on Tuesday with troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. (@Secdef via x)
“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even believe in countries to keep them because we don’t want to come back, so we’ll send them to Guantánamo,” Trump said at the time.
Last week nearly 200 Venezuelan illegal immigrants The arrested in the United States flew from the Guantanamo Bay after Venezuela expressed interest in accepting her citizens.
Earlier this month, two Venecuelan flights performed 190 illegal immigrants from the USA South American nation.
The Minister of Defense of Peta Hegseth talks to the troops at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. (@Secdef via x)
The US government claims that Venezuelan illegal immigrants were transferred to the Navy Base members of the abuser Too de Aragua gang. Trump turned the band into the face of the alleged threats illegally represented by immigrants living in the country.
