Trump Says He Is Opening 30,000 Beds at Guantánamo Bay for Detained Migrants

‘Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,’ the president announced.

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President Trump announces his plan for Guantánamo Bay after signing the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White House, January 29, 2025, at Washington. AP/Evan Vucci

President Trump will try to open a 30,000-bed facility at the American-controlled detention camp at Guantánamo Bay on the southern coast of Cuba, he announced on Wednesday. One part of the prison was used to process migrants back in the 1990s before the September 11, 2001 attacks. 

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