Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that he said could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

Mr Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.

US President Donald Trump has announced his administration will develop a large 30,000-bed migrant detention facility on Guantanamo Bay to protect American communities from the “scourge” of crime committed by illegal aliens.

The Guantanamo facility could hold "dangerous criminals" and people who are "hard to deport," said a Trump administration official speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

US President Donald Trump has announced he is preparing a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Trump said he is planning to open a detention centre at the site of a US military base in Cuba to hold up to 30,000 migrants living illegally in the United States.

The move widens Mr Trump's crackdown on migrants who enter and live in the US illegally as he vows to deport thousands.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon signed an order that called for the opening of a detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to house undocumented migrants. The order came shortly after he sig

President Trump ordered officials to create a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for "the worst criminal illegal aliens."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Trump said the move would double U.S. detention lockup capacities, and Guantanamo is “a tough place to get out of.”

President Trump announced Wednesday he plans to open up a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living in the US illegally.