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Pedro Camacho

Immigration Advocates Denounce Use of Guantanamo to Detain Migrants: 'Not Really a Detention Center, It's More Like Purgatory'

Immigration advocates are denouncing President Donald Trump's executive order directing the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prepare facilities at Guantánamo Bay for detaining up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants.

"We have 30,000 beds to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people" said Trump after signing the order. "Some of them we don't trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. This will double our capacity immediately. It's a tough place to get out of."

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