India, Jan. 30 -- President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay to detain 30,000 criminal migrants.
"This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty," Trump said.
During a media interview Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. Naval Station in Cuba is the "perfect place" to safely detain the migrants. He made clear that detaining migrants wouldn't necessarily require the high level of security used to detain suspected terrorists during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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