President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

President Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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

Critics, including the human rights organization Amnesty International, slammed President Donald Trump ’s announcement about opening a detention center at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to house up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants. “We’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” the president said Wednesday, just before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

The immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who will be sent to the detention facility are those who have committed crimes, President Trump said.

While signing Laken Riley Act on Thursday, Donald Trump announced that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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.

Donald Trump announces plans to use Guantanamo Bay for detaining up to 30,000 illegal immigrants charged with theft and violent crimes, labeling them

Sometimes more talking doesn't produce more clarity. One afternoon, Trump told reporters that there were “no surprises” when Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski decided to oppose Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. The next morning, Trump said he was “very surprised” by their votes.

President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants—following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.