The US military base in Cuba has been used to house detainees from the US war on terrorism.
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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to instruct the Pentagon
00:07and the Department of Homeland Security to expand a migrant detention facility at the
00:12U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
00:15We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening
00:22the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold
00:26them because we don't want them coming back so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
00:31The base in Cuba has historically been used to detain suspects from the U.S. war on terrorism
00:37and is already home to a facility which houses Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea.
00:43Its extension would make space for up to 30,000 migrants and signals the Pentagon's widening
00:49role in Trump's plans to crack down on illegal migration.
00:54It comes after Trump signed the bipartisan Lake and Riley Act into law on Wednesday as
00:59his administration's first piece of legislation.
01:03The act states that people who are in the United States illegally and are accused of
01:08theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported before conviction.