As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to the facility,

Just days after signing an executive order to enable the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Trump is sending the first undocumented immigrants.

Migrants are being flown to Guantanamo Bay as US President Donald Trump has begun cracking down on deportations. Speaking to Fox Business on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the first flights from the US to Guantanamo Bay were commencing.