The US president says he will order the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the facility to house as many as 30,000 migrants.

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday approving the use of the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of as many as 30,000 immigrants. The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.

A flurry of military-focused executive orders from the White House on Monday meant newly-confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first day on the job would be anything but leisurely.

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

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

Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back,' says president - Anadolu Ajansı

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

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.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon signed an order that called for the opening of a detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to house undocumented migrants. The order came shortly after he sig

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 said his administration will begin preparations on building a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.