President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week that he planned to expand the U.S. detention facility capabilities on the U.S. military base in Cuba to house up to 30,000 migrants

About 300 servicemembers have arrived in recent days as the base faces its most drastic changes since the Pentagon opened a prison there after the Sept. 11 attacks.

A U.S. official says the first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart Tuesday.

The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay landed in Cuba on Tuesday evening, according to a U.S. official. It was the first step in an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the U.

A U.S. official says the first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay has departed and is expected to arrive later this evening

The Trump administration on Tuesday began flights transporting "criminal aliens" to Guantanamo Bay, with plans in the works to use the Cuban detention facility to eventually hold thousands of other migrants.

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,

The U.S. government is moving quickly to implement President Trump's order to turn facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base into a large-scale immigration detention center.