The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is signaling support for a White House plan to begin housing migrants at Guantánamo Bay.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, indicated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, would run the operation and focus on detaining “the worst of the worst” public safety threats. The president said that the people sent there would be “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 out to Guantánamo.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Guantánamo Bay is the “perfect spot” to house deported migrants, after President Trump signed a memo Wednesday ordering a facility there be prepared for that purpose. “Guantánamo Bay, Jesse, is a perfect spot,” Hegseth said in an interview on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Reports.” “We don’t want illegal criminals in…

A senior White House administrator told Scripps News the official executive order is expected later Wednesday. (Scripps News)

"Today, the first flights from the United States to Guantánamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway," Leavitt said on Fox Business.