Former immigration enforcement officials warned of the conditions, including the use of strip searches and shackles, approximately 290 migrants had been held in at the military base.

A federal judge expressed doubts toward those challenging the federal policy, a potentially favorable sign for President Trump as he seeks to clamp down on immigration.

A federal judge on Friday declined to grant temporary injunctive relief to plaintiffs in two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to detain migrants at Guantánamo Bay. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said the plaintiffs — in one lawsuit,

Trump’s plan to vastly expand migrant detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba has proven costly and logistically complicated.

President Trump said the base would house as many as 30,000 migrants awaiting deportation. But construction of a tent city was halted weeks ago.

All 40 illegal migrants held at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba have been sent back to the United States and are now being held in Louisiana, two U.S. defense officials told Fox News.