President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

An Australian lawyer who visited Guantanamo Bay five times shares the conditions he witnessed at the US naval base where President Donald Trump plans to send 30,000 migrants.

President Donald Trump has announced plans to use Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as a detention site for immigrants.

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, announced on Wednesday that the United States will use a detention center at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to house tens of thousands of people who cannot be sent back to their home countries.

The administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement would run the facility in Cuba and that the “the worst of the worst" could go to Guantanamo.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will sign an executive action ordering the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.

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

ABC News’ Phil Lipof talks to Fordham Law School's Karen Greenberg about President Donald Trump’s plan to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay.

Trump says he'll send migrants to Guantanamo Bay hours after idea floated on Fox & Friends - ‘We’re evaluating and talking about that right now,’ Kristi Noem said on Fox News. ‘It’s the president's decision.

Prior to signing the fascistic Laken Riley Act into law, Trump ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to begin preparations for housing 30,000 human beings at the US Navy base.