WASHINGTON.- President Donald Trump said he will sign a decree to instruct the Pentagon and the National Security Department to prepare a migrants installation in Guantanamo Bay.
The American Naval Base of Guantanamo, in Cuba, already houses an installation for migrants, apart from the high security prison for foreigners suspected of terrorism, which has sometimes been used to accommodate Haitians and Cubans collected in the sea.
However, a measure to house tens of thousands of migrants at the base would again expand the role of the Pentagon in Trump’s offensive against illegal immigration.
“Today I will also sign a decree to instruct the departments of Defense and National Security to begin to prepare the installation for 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said in the White House.
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The installation would be used to “stop the worst illegal foreign criminals that threaten the American people.”
“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust that countries retain them because we don’t want them to come back, so we will send them to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately, right? ”He added.
The American Detention Center known as Guantanamo, located on the coast of Cuba, was created in 2002 by the then president of the United States, George W. Bush, to stop suspects of being foreign militants after the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States.
The US army said Tuesday that it would allow customs immigration and control service to stop migrants at the Buckley Space Buckley in Colorado.
The decision adds to US military flights of deportation of migrants outside the country and the deployment of just over 1,600 soldiers on the United States border with Mexico after Trump’s emergency statement about immigration last week.
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“It’s an act of brutality,” says Cuban President
The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, described Wednesday as an “act of brutality” the announcement of the United States.
The president failed the idea of Donald Trump and said that, if launched, he will culminate with migrants in “the well -known prisons for illegal torture and detention” within the US installation.
“In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment in the Naval Base in Guantanamo, located in illegally occupied Cuba territory, of thousands of migrants who necessarily expel,” Diaz-Canel criticized in social networks.
Similarly, the island’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in networks that the measure is a sample of “contempt for the human condition and international law” of Washington.
With information from Reuters and EFE
