Currently, there are no migrants being held at the base despite initial plans for the facility to hold up to 30,000 illegal migrants.

Authorities have removed U.S. immigrants from detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as a federal court in Washington weighs a challenge by civil rights advocates to holding immigrants at the offshore military station.

A Washington, D.C., judge gave the Trump administration the green light to continue detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The judge argued that because the Trump administration has removed the migrants it sent there,