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Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington and Tom Phillips

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay

a navy base above cliffs and sea
The US naval base outpost in Guantánamo Bay, in south-eastern Cuba, already has a facility used to house migrants picked up at sea. Photograph: Miami Herald/TNS

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that he said could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

Trump signaled earlier on Wednesday that he intended to issue an order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to open a center in order to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.

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