President Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Critics, including the human rights organization Amnesty International, slammed President Donald Trump ’s announcement about opening a detention center at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to house up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants. “We’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” the president said Wednesday, just before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who will be sent to the detention facility are those who have committed crimes, President Trump said.

While signing Laken Riley Act on Thursday, Donald Trump announced that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as a detention site for immigrants.

Donald Trump announces plans to use Guantanamo Bay for detaining up to 30,000 illegal immigrants charged with theft and violent crimes, labeling them