Trump announces 30,000 criminal illegal immigrants will be sent to Guantanamo Bay | 29 Jan 2025 | President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would sign an executive order for the Pentagon to prepare Guantanamo Bay to detain 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens." "Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay," Trump said. "Most people don't even know about it." He said they have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to house the detainees who pose a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there will ensure they do not come back. "Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," Trump said.