Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

Plus: President Donald Trump orders preparations on a facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to house up to 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.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order instructing his officials to prepare a facility to house 30,000 immigrants at Guantanamo Bay. This facility in Cuba has a notorious past where prisoners accused of terrorism-related offences have been detained after 9/11.

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.

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

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at revamping the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison to house migrants awaiting deportation. While signing the Laken Riley Act, the president explained that the facility would be used to detain migrants and that the number of available beds would be increased.

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

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 Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

The president said the facility at the U.S. naval base could house as many as 30,000 people