What to know about base where Trump will send migrants

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President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of migrants a central part of his campaign and presidency said on Wednesday that the United States will use a withholding center at Guantanamo Bay, Cubato keep tens of thousands of people who cannot be sent back to their home countries.

“We will send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said by the signing of Lake Riley Act.

Here’s a look at the US naval base and its history:

How does the US government use the base in Guantanamo Bay?

While the US naval base in Cuba is best known for the suspects brought in after 11 September 2001, it also has a separate facility used for decades to hold migrants.

The Migrant Operations Center has those detained at sea, many from Haiti and Cuba.

The NonProfit International Refugee Assistance project said in a report last year that migrants are being held under “prison -like” conditions. It said that migrants who were “trapped in a criminal justice” indefinitely, without responsibility for the officials who drove it.

The United States has been renting Guantanamo from Cuba for more than a century. Cuba is against the lease and typically rejects the nominal US rental payments.

Does US have enough space for Trump’s plans?

Trump has promised to deport millions of people living illegally in the United States, but the current immigration and customs enforcement budget has only enough funds to withhold about 41,000 people.

IS retains migrants at its processing centers and private operation of detention facilities along with local prisons and prisons. It has no facilities aimed at the detention of families that account for about a third of the arrivals on the southern US border.

During Trump’s first term authorized the use of military bases to withhold wandering children. In 2014, then -President Barack Obama was temporarily dependent on military bases to detain immigrant children, while the ramped privately driven family withholding centers to keep many of the tens of thousands of Central American families caught illegally crossing the border.

US military bases have been used repeatedly since the 1970s to accommodate the resolution of waves of immigrants fleeing from Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, Kosovo and Afghanistan.