U.S. sends first flight of migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay

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The Donald Trump administration sent the first flight of migrants arrested on U.S. soil to a detention center at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday. teleSUR

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00:00First U.S. military flight carrying immigrants deported to the illegal Guantanamo Naval Base

00:04took off Tuesday, marking the beginning of a controversial move by the Trump administration.

00:09The facility, historically used to detain juries and suspects,

00:13would now be used as an immigration detention center.

00:15In statements to Fox News, White House spokeswoman Caroline Blivett

00:19affirmed that the U.S. would not be allowed to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals

00:24from nations around the world. President Donald Trump defended the move,

00:27assuring that the base has the capacity to hold up to 30,000 migrants.

00:32Cuba recently rejected Trump's announcement decision to use the Guantanamo Naval Base

00:36to incarcerate tens of thousands of migrants, and has proposed to forcibly expel.

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