The Worst of the Worst: A Deep Dive by One America News Network
OAN Staff Blake Wolf
5:48 PM – Wednesday, January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday plans for his administration to relocate 30,000 of the most violent and dangerous undocumented immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.
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Guantanamo Bay, commonly referred to as GITMO, operates as a U.S. military prison situated within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on the Cuban coast.
“Today, I’m also enacting an executive order directing the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to commence preparations for a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump stated. “Many people are unaware of it.”
“Some of these individuals are so dangerous that we cannot rely on their home countries to detain them because we fear they might return,” Trump added. “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.”
Trump’s recent move to address illegal immigration has reportedly led to U.S. law enforcement agencies deporting and returning at least 7,300 undocumented individuals since his presidency began, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“Most people are not aware that we have the capacity for 30,000 detainees in Guantanamo for the most dangerous illegal aliens posing a threat to Americans,” Trump emphasized. “This will immediately double our capacity… It’s a challenging place to escape from.”
Trump’s directive mandates the DHS and the Defense Department to take “all necessary measures to enhance” the facilities “to full capacity to accommodate additional high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully residing in the United States.”
Previously, the U.S. had detained hundreds of individuals suspected of terrorism at Gitmo following the September 11th, 2001, attacks, but currently, only 15 suspects remain.
Moreover, Tom Homan, appointed by President Trump as the border czar, noted that “there has been an existing migrant center” at the Guantanamo facility for “decades.”
“So, we are simply going to extend the operations of that existing migrant center,” Homan stated, indicating that those sent to Cuba will be “the most severe cases.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned that the facility will serve as a location for “temporary processing” — handling and repatriating individuals to their home countries in a secure manner.
In contrast, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel criticized the move, describing the facility as “notorious for torture and unlawful detention.”
English Translation: “In a brutal act, the new U.S. administration announces the detention of thousands of forcibly removed migrants at the Guantanamo Naval Base, situated in illegally occupied territory #Cuba, placing them next to the infamous facilities of torture and unlawful detention,” Díaz-Canel expressed in a post on X.
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