The Trump administration has begun sending migrants to Guantanamo Bay

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has begun to expel migrants to the detention center at the U.S. military base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. This was reported on February 4 on the air of Fox Business by White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt.

It is specified that this step was taken just a few days after Trump announced that he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare a facility to hold about 30,000 "criminal illegal immigrants" at the US military base.

"I can confirm that the first flights of illegal migrants are leaving the United States today for Guantanamo Bay", Levitt said.

El Salvador, Venezuela and Colombia have agreed to repatriate their citizens, she said.

The migrants will reportedly be held in a detention center that was created for criminals detained after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. They will be separated from the 15 detainees already held there.

The facility is currently expected to have enough beds to house about 144 migrants, although there are not yet enough military security forces to fill them.

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The Pentagon confirmed to Izvestia the use of C-17 military aircraft for this purpose - one hour of their operation costs more than $19 thousand.

Earlier, on January 30, Trump Jr. supported the idea of reopening the Alcatraz prison. So the son of the US President commented on the news post of a social network user, which claimed that Trump would sign an executive order to prepare up to 30 thousand places in the Guantanamo Bay prison for criminals from among illegal migrants.

Before that, on January 28, The New York Post reported about the beginning of the first large-scale raids against migrants in New York. It was specified that the target of the arrests were migrants suspected of committing serious crimes. At the same time it was reported that the U.S. immigration service made about 1.2 thousand arrests in one day, and almost half of the detainees have no criminal record.

Mississippi authorities on January 24 offered to pay for catching and deporting illegal aliens. "Certified bounty hunter program" assumes that detectives will officially register and receive $1 thousand for each successful deportation of a border crosser.

On Jan. 20, immediately after his inauguration, Trump signed more than 200 new executive orders. Among them was the introduction of a state of emergency at the border with Mexico. In addition, the American president has repeatedly stated that he is going to cancel the granting of American citizenship by birthright.