The Pentagon is reportedly planning to begin flying the “worst of the worst” criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this weekend as part of President Trump’s effort to crackdown on illegal immigration.
The two military flights slated to transport migrants to the notorious US military base in Cuba are expected to be joined by a third plane bound for Peru, defense officials told Politico on Friday.
The military has completed eight deportation flights since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, including four to Guatemala, three to Honduras and one to Ecuador.
The weekend flights to Guantanamo, where the US has held infamous alleged terrorists for decades, including the accused mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will come just days after Trump issued a memorandum ordering the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the military outpost for migrants.
The memorandum, signed by the president on Wednesday, requires the Defense Department and DHS to “take all appropriate actions to expand” facilities “to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”
Trump, 78, said he plans to send up to 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay that are “so bad” he doesn’t trust their home countries to be able to keep them from getting back into the US.
“It’s a tough place to get out of,” the president said of the facility known as “Gitmo.”
Border czar Tom Homan noted Wednesday that “there’s already a migrant center” at the base in Guantanamo Bay, and that flights to the Communist island would be reserved for “the worst of the worst.”
The Pentagon did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
