The surge in troops is the latest move in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, including efforts to stop migrants from crossing the southern border and deportation of those enforcement officials said are in the U.

"We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens who threaten the American people," said President Trump.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are racing to set up multiple tent facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house thousands of migrants, but the scattered efforts have prompted questions internally about who’s in charge and what will happen once people arrive on site.