President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants—following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.

Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

President Trump signed a memo ordering the preparation of a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to house deported migrants.

Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the Laken Riley Act at the White House Wednesday afternoon.

Donald Trump has led an unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration in the US - a regime which has caused concern among many communities and stars, including Selena Gomez

Here’s a look at how the idea of sending struggling migrants to one of the strictest prisons in the world can end up going against Trump.

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The Guantanamo Bay detention centre has garnered a reputation for human rights abuses during the US ‘war on terror’.

Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation flights from landing, decline to issue travel documents to their citizens and refuse to acknowledge that the deportees are their citizens.

The president authorized the military to assist in deportations. The planes triggered a crisis between the United States and Colombia, and prompted questions. Here’s what to know.

The order follows the signing of the Laken Riley Act, which mandates the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes.