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

WASHINGTON—President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to construct a facility for holding as many as 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. Navy base in Cuba would be used to “contain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,

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

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

President Trump announces an executive order to build a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to house 30,000 migrants. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,

President Donald Trump plans to open a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

Trump announced the plan before signing the Laken Riley Act, a law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses.