Trump Plans to Send Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Signs New Immigration Law

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. “We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said. He made the announcement during a ceremony in which he signed into law the Laken Riley Act, the first legislation to get his signature since his return to the White House. The bill, named in memory of a nursing student killed by an undocumented immigrant in Georgia, allows the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes. Meanwhile, the White House budget office Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a copy of a new memo obtained by The Washington Post, after the administration’s move to halt spending this week provoked a backlash.