Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said illegal immigrants sent to Guantanamo Bay won’t be housed there indefinitely. “That is not the plan,” Noem said during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday when asked.

Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean nations.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. base in Cuba since 1898, may soon house thousands of detained migrants, following a proposal by the Trump administration.

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

President Trump’s efforts to remove certain immigrants from the United States appeared to ramp up Wednesday after he signed a memo to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported individuals.

Trump announced the plan to send criminal migrants to Guantanamo. According to the latest information, he has already dispatched additional forces there. The White House announced that, in accordance with President Donald Trump's earlier promise,