US President Donald Trump has unveiled a surprise plan to detain thousands of undocumented migrants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's military prison used to detain terrorism suspects since the 9/11 attacks. The announcement comes as he signs the Laken Riley Act, a bill cracking down on migrant criminal suspects.
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00:30Good afternoon.
00:31Today I am also signing an Executive Order to instruct the Departments of Defense and
00:35Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,
00:41most people don't even know about it.
00:44We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening
00:51the American people, some of them are so bad we don't even trust to countries to hold
00:55them because we don't want them coming back, so we are going to send them out to Guantanamo.
01:00This is a typical cell in Camp 5.
01:29It meets all American Correctional Association standards.
01:59I'm from Guantanamo.
02:01I'm desperate to find a third country to host them.
02:07It must be hard.
02:09If they have left their countries to find a better life,
02:11it's because it's complicated and difficult.
02:13Where are they?