Us President Donald Trump's Dispute Move: New Prisoner Centre For 30,000 People At Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay Prison is located in Cuba at the American naval base. It has been targeted to global criticism for a long time due to the violations of human rights and keeping prisoners in custody without prosecution. In recent days a lot of news has come out about the release of several prisoners from this prison and sent them to their countries. This step is considered to be an important step towards closing this prison.

American President Donald Trump signed an executive order. According to this executive order, instructions are given to the Department of Defense (Pentagon) and Homeland Security that they set up a detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with a capacity of 30,000 people. This centre will be used to keep illegal immigrants who are considered a danger for the safety of the American people.

In Guantanamo Bay, there is already a high security American military prison where suspects of terrorism are kept. However, a new prisoner centre will be different and it will be specially allocated for illegal immigrants.

The government of Cuba strongly condemned this announcement. The government of Cuba accused America of violence and illegal custody on "occupied" land. Cuba says the US presence at Guantanamo Bay is illegal and there establishment of prisoner centres is a violation of human rights.

The new border czar of the US administration, Tom Homan has said that it will expand the existing prisoner center at Guantanamo Bay. So during the Trump administration, more people could be held in the face of an increase in arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants.

President Trump also signed on the "Lekin Riley Act” under which the illegal immigrants who are caught in theft or violent crimes will be kept in jail pending trial. This bill has been kept on the name of Georgia’s nursing student Lakin Riley. She was killed by a Venezuelan citizen one year before.

During a signing ceremony in the White House, President Donald Trump said that he instructed the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security by Executive Order that they start the preparations of the centre for 30,000-person capacity. He said that most of the people do not know about this. Moreover, he said that these centres will be used to keep illegal immigrants.

As a result of these steps, panic spread in the communities of immigrants because the raids are on the rise towards the Trump administration. The organization of human rights criticized these policies and called them inhumane and illegal.

The decision to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay is a controversial move because even before that the organizations of human rights have been objecting. It remains to see how successful this new policy will be and what impact it will have on human rights.

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