President Donald Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to expand the migrant operations center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide space for high-priority criminal aliens in the United States, and to address any other immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.
“This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty,” Trump said.
In several localities of immigration enforcement focus, such as Chicago and Seattle, known criminal aliens with ties to terror groups have already been rounded up.
Guantanamo Bay will hold up to 30,000 illegal immigrants living in the United States who cannot be deported back to their home countries because their countries refuse to repatriate them.
Guantanamo Bay has been long used to house members of terror groups. The United States shoulders the burdens for many countries, particularly in the Arab world, who are content to keep their criminals in U.S. custody. But during the Biden Administration, it was reduced in capacity from the U.S. war on terrorism. During the Biden Administration, Guantanamo Bay was reduced in capacity and had 15 detainees after 11 were sent to Oman.
“We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said during the signing of the order in the White House, after he signed his first bill from Congress, the Laken Riley Act.
In other words, if the home countries won’t take back their citizens, Trump will find space for them in a prison community on the parcel of land the U.S. has control of in Cuba.
Recent ICE enforcement actions since Trump became president include:
ICE ERO Boston arrests illegal MS-13 member charged with firearms, drug crimes
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an illegally present 19-year-old Guatemalan gang member charged with drug and weapons crimes. Officers from ICE ERO Boston arrested Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez in Boston Jan. 22.
ICE ERO Baltimore arrests Salvadoran gang member with weapons charges
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended a 19-year-old Salvadoran national and member of the MS-13 foreign terrorist organization. ICE officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore arrested Anderson Geovany Romero in Hyattsville, Maryland, Jan. 25. This undocumented alien was apprehended after the Prince George’s Detention Center failed to honor an immigration detainer and released him from custody. Romero has pending criminal charges for possessing a loaded handgun and ammunition.
ICE Boston arrests Honduran illegal alien charged with sex crimes, assault and battery, armed robbery
Officers from ICE ERO Boston arrested Juan Alberto Rodezno-Marin, an illegally present Honduran national charged with sex crimes, armed robbery and assault and battery.
ICE ERO Boston arrests Haitian gang member with numerous convictions
ICE officers from ERO Boston arrested Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a member of a violent Haitian street gang, in Boston Jan. 22. Charles’ convictions include multiple drug, weapons, and assault and battery crimes.
ICE ERO San Francisco arrests Guatemalan citizen convicted of lewd acts with a minor
ICE officers from ERO San Francisco arrested Juan Velasquez-Francisco in Sacramento, California Jan. 23.
ERO Houston repatriates accused child rapist to Mexico who has illegally entered US 4 times
ICE’s ERO Houston, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the SAFE Task Force, repatriated Nestor Flores Encarnacion, a 58-year-old undocumented alien, to his home country of Mexico Jan. 23.
