Trump orders Pentagon to prepare center for migrants at Guantanamo Bay

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum for the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to set up 30,000 beds at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba to detain undocumented immigrants. teleSUR

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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to open a migration detention

00:05center at the Guantanamo National Naval Base.

00:08Trump announced that the new space will be used to detain up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants

00:14in the U.S. who allegedly represent a threat to society.

00:19The U.S. head of state inscribed the executive order following a White House event at which

00:24he signed his first legislation as president in Raleigh law, which will facilitate the

00:30arrest and deportation of undocumented foreigners charged with misdemeanors.

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