President Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.

Now the base could have yet another new incarnation — playing a key role in President Donald Trump’s immigration blitz . The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects,