Hegseth reported on the "perfect place" to temporarily detain migrants in the U.S.

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is an "ideal place" for "safe temporary detention of migrants" in the United States. The country's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on January 29.

"It's better to hold them in a safe place in Guantanamo Bay that is designed and set up for migrants while the process of returning them to where they came from is underway," he said in an interview with Fox News television.

According to Hegseth, the United States will "humanely evict" criminal migrants from the country and cooperate with other agencies to secure the southern border. The head of the U.S. Defense Department emphasized that "the worst criminal illegal aliens" would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

He also noted that if the golf course at the military base is converted, it will allow to accommodate 6 thousand migrants, who will be sent there on the orders of US President Donald Trump.

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Earlier in the day, Trump said he would sign an executive order that would direct the Pentagon and the country's Department of Homeland Security to prepare up to 30,000 places in the Guantanamo Bay prison for illegal migrant criminals. He specified that the "worst" criminals from among illegal migrants, who, according to the President, could threaten the lives of American citizens, could be sent to this prison.

Before that, on January 28, The New York Post reported about the beginning of the first large-scale raids against migrants in New York. It was specified that the target of arrests were migrants suspected of committing serious crimes. Then it became known that the U.S. immigration service made about 1.2 thousand arrests in one day, and almost half of the detainees have no criminal record.

The authorities of the state of Mississippi on January 24 offered to pay for the capture and deportation of illegal aliens. "Certified bounty hunter program" assumes that detectives will officially register and receive $1 thousand for each successful deportation of a border crosser.

On Jan. 20, immediately after his inauguration, Trump signed more than 200 new executive orders. Among them was the introduction of a state of emergency at the border with Mexico. In addition, the American president has repeatedly stated that he is going to cancel the granting of American citizenship by birthright.