President Trump says the the 30,000-person facility for undocumented migrants will house "the worst criminal illegal aliens".

President Trump ordered officials to create a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for "the worst criminal illegal aliens."

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants.

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.

President Trump said he is signing an executive order on Wednesday to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported migrants. The order will direct the Department of

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned President Donald Trump's announcement that 30,000 deported migrants would be housed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base. Díaz-Canel called the move an "act of brutality" and said the base is "illegally occupied" in Cuba in a post to X on Wednesday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explained on FNC's 'Jesse Watters' how Guantanamo Bay can hold 30,000 illegal immigrants: "We absolutely can and can increase it rapidly. I served there, I know the places where this would happen.