President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants—following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.

The immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who will be sent to the detention facility are those who have committed crimes, President Trump said.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

Critics, including the human rights organization Amnesty International, slammed President Donald Trump ’s announcement about opening a detention center at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to house up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants. “We’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” the president said Wednesday, just before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

President Donald Trump's rapid reshaping of the federal government continues with executive orders and action from his acting agency heads.Trump Cabinet nominees -- including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel -- were questioned by senators during confirmation hearings on Thursday while another -- Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum -- was confirmed by the Senate.

Sometimes more talking doesn't produce more clarity. One afternoon, Trump told reporters that there were “no surprises” when Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski decided to oppose Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. The next morning, Trump said he was “very surprised” by their votes.