First group of migrant detainees to be sent to Guantanamo Bay under Trump plan

Washington — The U.S. government is moving quickly to implement President Trump's order to turn facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base into a large-scale immigration detention center, with plans to transport the first group of migrant detainees there on Tuesday, two U.S. officials told CBS News.

Last week, Mr. Trump instructed his administration to dramatically expand detention space inside the naval base to detain as many as 30,000 "high-priority" unauthorized immigrants with criminal records. Since then, officials from across the government, including the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security, have scrambled to implement the president's directive.

One of the U.S. officials said those sent to the naval base would be unauthorized immigrants arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the agency at the center of the president's vow to oversee the largest deportation effort in American history. The agency has ramped up immigration operations across the country under Mr. Trump, averaging around 1,000 daily arrests in the past week — up from the 312 average in former President Joe Biden's final year in office.