Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has sharply rebuked Trump's plans for Guantanamo Bay.
"In an act of brutality, the new US government announces imprisonment at the Guantanamo naval base, located in illegally occupied Cuban territory," Díaz-Canel wrote on X, adding the migrants would be held near facilities he said the US had used for "torture and illegal detention".
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The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but personnel from DHS will likely be responsible for the migrants themselves.
It is unclear how the facility would be funded.
The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was set up in 2002 by then-president George W Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001.
There are 15 detainees left in the prison.
However, the facility for migrants is separate from the detention centre on the base.
Pro-refugee groups have called for the Guantanamo migrant facility to be closed and for Congress to investigate alleged abuses there.
The International Refugee Assistance Project said in a 2024 report that detainees described unsanitary conditions, families with young children housed together with single adults, a lack of access to confidential phone calls, and the absence of educational services for children.