{"id":76653,"date":"2025-02-03T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/02\/03\/troops-arrive-at-guantanamo-bay-to-prepare-migrant-detention-center\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:16:12","slug":"troops-arrive-at-guantanamo-bay-to-prepare-migrant-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2025\/02\/03\/troops-arrive-at-guantanamo-bay-to-prepare-migrant-detention-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops arrive at Guantanamo Bay to prepare migrant detention center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service members arrived over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, where they\u2019ll work to prepare the Navy base in southeast Cuba for an influx of deported migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marines with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division boarded a KC-130J at Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina on Sunday and departed for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. There, they joined personnel from U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Army South, bringing the total number of service members deployed to the base for the migrant holding operation to 150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marines and soldiers will provide support for a White House plan to deport immigrants lacking permanent legal status from the United States and detain them at the base. This comes as part of a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/expanding-migrant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity\/\">announced<\/a> Jan. 29, to use Guantanamo as a holding ground for \u201chigh-priority criminal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-says-hell-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-base\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said<\/a> he was directing an expansion of a detention center on the naval base to hold up to 30,000 migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-says-hell-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-base\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/APTOPIX_Trump_Immigration_28476.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump says he\u2019ll send \u2018worst\u2019 criminal migrants to Guantanamo base<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Trump said the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of people who can&#039;t be sent back to their home countries.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty,\u201d reads the White House memorandum that directed the expansion of such a facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a Jan. 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hegseth-confirms-worst-worst-criminal-migrants-sent-gitmo-all-options-table\">interview<\/a> on Fox News that the U.S. military would \u201cbe a key element of expulsions and mass deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If immigrants lacking legal status are unable to be sent back to their home country or an interim destination, Hegseth explained, they will be held at Guantanamo. 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