Trump - Prepare migrant housing at Gitmo

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memo that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to "halt the border invasion."

"I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States," the memo to the Pentagon and DHS states.

Trump previewed the directive during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, an immigration detention measure, saying he would "instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay."

"Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back," Trump added.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a CNN interview Wednesday that "there might be some resources that could be established for the worst of the worst at Guantánamo Bay," and that Trump and DHS were assessing those resources.