President Donald Trump unveiled plans on Wednesday to repurpose the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to detain immigrants accused of serious crimes.

MIAMI - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration plans to send thousands of undocumented immigrants to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a move that has drawn sharp reactions from South Florida officials and immigration advocates.

The administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement would run the facility in Cuba and that the “the worst of the worst" could go to Guantanamo.

A new executive order was yesterday signed by Donald Trump, announcing plans to construct a colossal centre at Guantánamo Bay, which will be used to detain as many as 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

President Donald Trump Wednesday signed into law the first bill of his second term, a measure that would require immigration officials to detain immigrants arrested or charged with property crimes, among others,

President Trump signed a memorandum to build a 30,000-person detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for migrants in the U.S. illegally.

The president orders the construction of a detention facility at the US Navy base, prompting an angry backlash from Cuba.

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

Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll tells Fox News Digital how the bureau's investigatory and tactical resources have been deployed to fight migrant crime.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the “worst criminal aliens” to a detention center in Guantanamo

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.