Trump said last week that the 30,000-person facility would be used to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the “first flights” carrying illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay are underway. Leavitt made the announcement during an interview on Fox Business, where she said that President Donald Trump was not “messing around” with the plan that he announced last week during the signing ceremony of the Laken Riley Act.
"He's no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world," she told Fox Business host Stuart Varney. "Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country," she continued. "And I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway."
Trump said on Wednesday that the 30,000-person facility, known commonly as Gitmo, would be used to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. 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 to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately."
"That’s a tough place to get out of. Today’s signing brings us one step closer to eradicating migrant crime in our communities once and for all," Trump added at the time.
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