Since retaking office last week, President Donald Trump has issued numerous executive orders to address a nonexistent national immigration emergency. This week, Trump pledged to house undocumented migrants in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The plan is certain to spark blowback from progressives and civil libertarians alike and will likely provoke legal challenges. But ironically, Trump's action is partly enabled by former President Barack Obama's failure to close the facility in the first place.
"We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said, according to CBS News. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back."
