President Trump means to keep his campaign promises, foremost among them his promise to deport illegal aliens of the criminal kind. Today comes this story, via Steven Nelson in the New York Post reporting on Trump’s comments at the Laken Riley Act signing ceremony:
President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of his campaign to mass-deport migrants who have committed crimes.
Trump inked a memorandum requiring the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare for migrants there after previewing the plan while signing the anti-illegal immigration Laken Riley Act.
“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,” Trump said.
“Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
The Post story links to Trump’s memo to the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security — “to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States” — i.e., to get Gitmo ready.
Cue the lawyers: “Attorneys for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo said they expect litigation if Trump’s threat comes to fruition — with would-be deportees claiming lack of due process and access to courts, as well as allegedly substandard conditions and potentially the denial of access to asylum processes.”
Related, from the Daily Wire: “Meet The Criminal Illegal Aliens Captured In ICE’s Sunday Raids.”
And from the AP: “Trump administration revokes deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.”
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