President Donald Trump unveiled plans on Wednesday to repurpose the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to detain immigrants accused of serious crimes.

MIAMI - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration plans to send thousands of undocumented immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a move that has drawn sharp reactions from South Florida officials and immigration advocates.

A new executive order was yesterday signed by Donald Trump, announcing plans to construct a colossal centre at Guantánamo Bay, which will be used to detain as many as 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

President Donald Trump Wednesday signed into law the first bill of his second term, a measure that would require immigration officials to detain immigrants arrested or charged with property crimes, among others,

President Trump signed a memorandum to build a 30,000-person detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for migrants in the U.S. illegally.

The president orders the construction of a detention facility at the US Navy base, prompting an angry backlash from Cuba.

At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay ... to the slain Georgia nursing student ...

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Trump said the move would double U.S. detention lockup capacities, and Guantanamo is “a tough place to get out of.”

We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo," the president said in the White House East Room. He did not elaborate.