President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
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.”
President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants—following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.
The immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who will be sent to the detention facility are those who have committed crimes, President Trump said.
Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.
In his first interview since being sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth sought to clarify how the federal government plans to use Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants being deported from the United States.
President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.
Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by
"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.
Sometimes more talking doesn't produce more clarity. One afternoon, Trump told reporters that there were “no surprises” when Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski decided to oppose Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. The next morning, Trump said he was “very surprised” by their votes.
President Donald Trump said that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.”