Cuba Condemns Trump Plot to Send Migrants to Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp

Cuban president calls Trump's Guantanamo Bay announcement an 'act of brutality'

The Cuban president and foreign minister have just reacted to Trump's announcement of a detention facility for undocumented migrants in Guantanamo Bay - which is located in Cuba.

Earlier today, President Trump said the 30,000-person facility would house "the worst criminal illegal aliens". He added that "some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back".

In a social media post written in Spanish, which we have translated, President Miguel Diaz-Canel called it an "act of brutality" to place migrants next to "known prisons of torture".

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also wrote on social media that the plan "shows disregard for human conditions and international law".

As a reminder, the Guantanamo Bay is the home of a US military base and a detention camp was established there in 2002 to hold suspects captured in counter-terrorism operations.

But various US administrations have also housed migrants at a facility called the Guantánamo Migrant Operations Center.

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Trump has now signed the memorandum calling on the heads of the homeland security and defence to expand the migrant detention centre at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The order directs the officials to bring the facility "to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security".

"This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty."