The Fascist Felon’s (mis)administration started sending migrants to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, on Tuesday as part of a crackdown on undocumented immigration, the White House said.
“I can confirm the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are under way,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday morning. “Trump is not messing around, and he’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world.”
The flight to Guantanamo Bay comes as the federal government seeks to ramp up its mass deportation plans. Since President Donald Trump took office, the White House has announced agreements to resume direct deportation flights to Venezuela and to send undocumented immigrants from any country — and perhaps Americans with criminal convictions — to El Salvador, which operates the largest maximum-security prison in the hemisphere.
Guantanamo already houses a migrant processing facility where Cubans, Haitians and others apprehended at sea await the outcome of their asylum cases or to be resettled in a third country. The State Department has been in charge of running the center, with assistance from the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.