President Donald Trump has ordered the expansion of the prison camp as a detention facility for illegal immigrants.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

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

The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

President Trump announced plans to hold undocumented immigrants in a detention center at the US naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. "We don't want them coming back, so we're sending them to Guantanamo,

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he plans to send 30,000 criminal illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to ensure they don't return.

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

Migrant advocates on Thursday were speaking out against plans by President Donald Trump to revamp Guantánamo Bay to detain and hold thousands of undocumented immigrants sent from the United States.

(): US President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain “high-priority criminal aliens.” The Guantanamo Bay facility,

Not for the first time the U.S. federal government will turn to its agreed-upon lease with the Cuban government for a place to house migrants bound for or prohibited from staying in the United States.