Trump to Transfer Undocumented Immigrants To Prison Outside US
- United States President Donald Trump signed his first major piece of legislation, the Laken Riley Acton on Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Trump announced the transfer of undocumented immigrants in America to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- The Laken Riley Act is a that requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants
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Washington DC, United States - President Donald Trump has announced plans to transfer undocumented immigrants from the United States of America (USA) to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Trump said the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would be transformed into a holding centre for undocumented immigrants.
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According to Al Jazeera, the returning American president made the announcement after signing his first major piece of legislation, the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, January 30, 2025.
The Trump administration is using the Laken Riley Act to expel as many undocumented individuals as possible.
Speaking to an audience at the White House about the act, Trump said:
“Today, I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don’t even know about it,”
Laken Riley Act
The law requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain non-citizens unlawfully in the US who are either arrested or charged with burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.
The individuals can then be subject to deportation, regardless of whether they are convicted of a crime.
Guantanamo Bay Prison
The detention facility opened in 2002 as a holding facility for suspects swept up in the US’s so-called “war on terror”, and many detainees were held for years without a trial.
The immediate past President Joe Biden had recently transferred prisoners to other countries, leaving only 15 detainees in the facility.
The facility, which marked its 23rd anniversary earlier this month was slated to be closed under President Barack Obama.
But Donald Trump, during his first term in 2018, signed an executive order to keep Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future.
It was gathered that the Republican president has long sought to expand US use of the facility, including through the transfer of new detainees.
Legit.ng had reported that Trump confirmed his plan to embark on mass deportations of migrants without legal permission.
The 78-year-old Trump said he would declare a national emergency and use the military for mass deportations.
Trump has vowed to launch the largest deportation program in American history as soon as he assumed office.
FG takes action as Trump plans to deport Nigerians
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government said it is ready to welcome deported Nigerians from the United States of America (USA).
Tinubu's administration had already set up an inter-agency committee should Nigerians be deported by President Trump from the US.
The Director of Media and Corporate Affairs of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abdur-Rahman Balogun, made this known during an interview.
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