The United States began flying illegal aliens to the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba today as the Trump administration continues its work to prepare the naval base to serve as a detention center for tens of thousands of migrants.
The first flight, scheduled to leave today from Fort Bliss in Texas, has roughly a dozen illegal aliens on board. While the base is currently equipped to hold 120 illegal aliens, the Trump administration says it will expand the base to be able to hold 30,000 aliens.
The flight comes less than a week after President Donald Trump announced that Guantanamo Bay, which has historically been used to detain terror suspects, will be used “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
“Guantanamo Bay will hold the worst of the worst. That starts today,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kritsi Noem wrote in a post on X…
