Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting Guantanamo Bay on Friday to survey the Trump administration's efforts to transform the Naval station into a massive migrant detention center. U.S. officials are making plans to send daily flights there with migrant detainees.

Trump’s newly-appointed Secretary of Homeland Security has refused to rule out locking up children at one of the most notorious torture sites in modern U.S. history. Appearing on Sunday morning’s broadcast of Meet the Press,

WASHINGTON—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is slated to make a trip Friday to Guantanamo Bay, as the Trump administration steps up use of the naval base in seeking to emphasize toughness against migrants it says have criminal backgrounds.

Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security secretary, says “we have the space, we just have to get to work” at Guantanamo Bay to prepare it for deported migrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Guantanamo Bay, where migrants are being flown who were in the U.S. illegally and who have been deemed high-risk by the Trump administration. Photo: Kristi Noem/X;

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem plans to visit a migrant detention site in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the Trump administration ramps up enforcement efforts, a department spokesperson said on Thursday.