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

President Donald Trump's rapid reshaping of the federal government continues with executive orders and action from his acting agency heads.Trump Cabinet nominees -- including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel -- were questioned by senators during confirmation hearings on Thursday while another -- Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum -- was confirmed by the Senate.

Critics, including the human rights organization Amnesty International, slammed President Donald Trump ’s announcement about opening a detention center at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to house up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants. “We’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” the president said Wednesday, just before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

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.

Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president Joe Biden. "The releases have not resumed," Camila Rodriguez of the Mexico-based NGO Justicia 11J,

Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.

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

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant detention facility for "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.