Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the U. S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay would soon be prepared to house illegal migrants who had been deported.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested as many as 30,000 criminal migrants could be sent to the complex.

He said the decision is because of a lack of confidence in other countries’ ability to detain these individuals.

“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said. “This will double our capacity immediately, right? And tough. That’s a tough, that’s a tough place to get out of.”

Noem said Thursday on Fox News that the facility will not take long to prepare for the migrants’ arrivals.

“It won’t take very long at all,” she said. “We already have some dangerous criminals there that are illegal aliens and the facilities can be set up fairly quickly.

“We have the space, we just have to get to work.”

Constitutional experts have sounded the alarm over Trump’s plan, noting that illegal torture techniques have allegedly been used at the facility.

“Guantanamo really should be known as the dumping ground for American executive action, where they really do want to circumvent — and sometimes smash and shred — the United States constitution,” Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said Thursday.

“Because there’s a military base, there’s not as much scrutiny,” he added. “There’s no transparency. There’s no information about what happens there.”

Noem also joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in New York City last week as they carried out deportation efforts. Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, said in a video shared via X she went along to get “the dirtbags off these streets.”

The secretary noted in another post a “criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges is now in custody.”

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is located within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which sits on a piece of land leased to the United States in 1903 for an indefinite period of time.

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