Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama fought to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, with the former reducing the prisoner count to 15. But President Donald Trump clearly doesn't agree with the approach and wants to fill GITMO with 30,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum to begin preparing a facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of “the worst” undocumented immigrants.

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 Donald Trump has announced that the United States will hold migrants at the notorious Guantanamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of

In his first interview since being sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth sought to clarify how the federal government plans to use Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants being deported from the United States.

But Biden's team achieved a breakthrough in the case last summer: Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed agreed to plead guilty and serve life in prison in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. Two of Mohammed's alleged accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, also agreed to plea deals.

Notorious military prison Guantanamo Bay will be used to detain thousands of “criminal illegal aliens” under plans announced by Donald Trump...

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday approving the use of the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of as many as 30,000 immigrants. The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.

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.

Donald Trump has ordered his administration to prepare Guantánamo Bay Naval Base to house up to 30,000 “criminal aliens,” significantly expanding the government’s current detention capacity. The portion of the facility the administration plans to use currently only has capacity for 150 migrants.

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