Marines arrive at Guantanamo Bay as Trump's migrant deportation plan moves ahead at warp speed

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By KATELYN CARALLE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Published: 15:39 EST, 2 February 2025 | Updated: 15:51 EST, 2 February 2025

Marines arrived astatine the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base successful Cuba connected Sunday.

The White House announced the accomplishment of the forces deployed to the land to assistance successful expanding the violent situation to beryllium utilized arsenic lodging for amerciable migrants.

A associated Instagram station by the White House, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance connected Sunday day includes 2 images of a subject level landing successful Guantanamo Bay with Marines.

'U.S. Marines person arrived astatine Guantanamo Bay to enactment the Department of Defense and Homeland Security successful expanding the Migrant Operations Center—advancing President Trump's ngo to support Americans and unafraid our nation,' the caption reads.

The U.S. naval basal was astir famously utilized arsenic a situation for terrorists, including those progressive successful plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks. It became infamous for the usage of enhanced interrogation methods utilized connected prisoners.

Housing migrants astatine what has go colloquially known arsenic GITMO comes arsenic the caller medication grapples with wherever to clasp amerciable and undocumented migrants successful the propulsion towards wide deportation.

The White House announced Marines landed astatine Guantanamo Bay Naval Base successful Cuba Sunday to enactment the lodging of amerciable immigrants astatine the basal erstwhile utilized arsenic a situation for terrorists 

The White House has already tally into issues with immoderate countries refusing to instrumentality backmost their migrants. 

Last weekend, Trump and Colombia's President Gustavo Petro got into a nationalist spat erstwhile helium refused to judge subject planes afloat of his citizens that illegally migrated to the U.S.

Colombia's person folded when Trump instantly threatened economical and diplomatic sanctions.

Meanwhile, Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem did not regularisation retired the imaginable of holding migrant children astatine the erstwhile situation camp.

'Could women, children, and families beryllium held there, astatine Guantanamo?' NBC News big Kristen Welker asked.

'You know, if you look astatine what we are doing contiguous of targeting the worst of the worst, we've been precise wide connected that. The precedence of this president is to spell aft transgression aliens that are making our streets much dangerous,' Noem told Meet the Press successful her Sunday interview.

Noem said it lone made consciousness to 'use the facilities that we have' to location each migrants, including children.

Honduran migrants get backmost successful their location state aft flying backmost connected a deportation formation retired of the U.s. amid Donald Trump's swift implementation of wide deportation efforts

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (pictured) did not regularisation retired the U.S. utilizing GITMO to location amerciable migrant women and children saying they will 'use the facilities that we have'

'I deliberation you're good alert we person different detention facilities, different places successful the country,' Noem added. 'So we volition utilize what we person according to what's due for the individuals that we person gone retired connected these targeted operations with section instrumentality enforcement and task forces.'

Trump has already deployed an further 1,500 soldiers and Marines to assistance the astir 2,500 who were already stationed astatine the confederate border.

He plans to nonstop a full of 10,000 U.S. troops to assistance with operations, which includes closing the border, stopping the travel of amerciable immigrants, drugs and trafficked women and children implicit the obstruction of the U.S. and Mexico.

It's unclear if the Marines who landed astatine the Guantanamo Bay basal connected Sunday are portion of those already deployed oregon portion of an further portion sent to 'support lodging of amerciable aliens.'

It's besides chartless however galore Marines are portion of the ngo successful GITMO. 

The Pentagon did not instantly respond to a DailyMail.com petition for comment.

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