First Flights of Illegal Immigrants to Guantanamo Bay Begin, White House Announces
Charlie Kirk Staff
02/04/2025

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday that the “first flights” transporting illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay have begun. During a Fox Business interview, Leavitt explained that President Donald Trump is serious about following through on his plan, which he announced last week when he signed the Laken Riley Act into law.
“He’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world,” she told Fox Business host Stuart Varney. “Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country,” she continued. “And I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway.”
Trump spoke about the move on Wednesday, saying that the 30,000-person detention facility, widely known as Gitmo, would now be used to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back so we’re going to send them to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately.”
“That’s a tough place to get out of. Today’s signing brings us one step closer to eradicating migrant crime in our communities once and for all,” Trump added at the time.
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