Trump Plan to Relocate Migrants to Guantánamo Bay

What the Reports Claim

According to these reports, Trump made this declaration from the White House. He said Guantánamo Bay has 30,000 beds for those undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes. Apparently, he expressed his fear that some of them were too dangerous to be sent back to their countries and proposed keeping them in detention at Guantánamo Bay so they could not come back to the United States.

The reports also claimed that Trump ordered the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to make the facility ready for use in this way. Officials claimed that a supposed memorandum was signed to enact this plan, agreeing that the process would expand detention capacity and allow stricter immigration policies to be enforced.

Let's fact-check the claims:

Despite all these claims, no news source proved any credible source claiming an order of this sort was made by Trump. The detention facility Guantánamo Bay is specifically a detention center for terrorism suspects and not for illegal immigrants. The enforcement of immigration was a leading theme of the Trump administration; however, nothing proves he ever proposed the idea of utilizing this facility.

Besides, previous administrations had proposed to employ Guantánamo for immigration detention, and this has never been done on a large scale. The facility is highly controversial, and detentions unrelated to terrorism would face legal and political challenges.

Based on such evidence, the claim that Trump ordered migrants to Guantánamo Bay seems false or a complete exaggeration. No official confirmation and, thus no legitimate reporting were able to support this statement. As always, a piece of information must first be verified from believable sources before becoming a beloved opinion or rumor