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President Donald Trump has announced plans to sign an executive order directing the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay, the high-security U.S. military facility in Cuba.
According to Trump, the facility will be used to house up to 30,000 illegal aliens, with a focus on the “worst of the worst”—individuals deemed criminal threats to American citizens.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said.
The president emphasized that some of these individuals are so dangerous that the administration does not trust their home countries to keep them in custody.
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back; so, we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump stated.
He described the executive order as a major step toward eradicating migrant crime and restoring law and order in American communities.
The announcement came just before Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, a measure aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
BREAKING: President Trump signs the Laken Riley Act
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Additionally, the Trump administration has implemented a new ICE arrest quota, requiring 1,800 immigration arrests per day nationwide. This policy mandates that each of ICE’s 25 field offices must make at least 75 arrests daily to meet the target.
Since Trump took office less than 10 days ago, ICE has already conducted approximately 4,500 arrests.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN that the 1,800 daily arrest figure is a minimum and that the administration aims to exceed it.
Stephen Miller: ICE arrest quotas are "floor, not a ceiling"
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“The numbers you cited are a floor, not a ceiling. Very importantly, they’re a floor. The goal is to arrest at least that many, but hopefully many more,” Miller explained.
Meanwhile, an ICE official told The Washington Post that the agency has a long list of criminal suspects and will continue prioritizing public safety and national security threats while meeting quotas.
Last year, ICE reported having approximately 670,000 immigrants in its caseload with criminal convictions or pending charges, including those serving sentences in U.S. prisons and jails.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Border Czar Tom Homan said deportations will steadily increase as enforcement expands.
“The aperture right now is constrained to public safety threats, national security threats—a smaller population,” Homan said. “We’re going to do the same priority base as President Trump’s promise. But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”
With this latest executive order, the Trump administration is doubling down on its commitment to aggressive immigration enforcement, further signaling a return to strict border policies.