President Donald Trump is now moving forward with a plan to create a 30,000-bed migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba — the infamous facility that has been used for years to house captured enemy combatants from the War on Terror.
The announcement triggered an explosion of outrage from commenters on social media — many of whom pointed out that the plan is not just cruel, but essentially impossible.
"Also known as a concentration camp," wrote former Trump communications official Anthony Scaramucci. "Yet no dissent. No courageous political leader willing to stand up to this."
"30,000 human beings are going to be 'detained' in Guantanamo Bay by the United States government," wrote commenter @JoJoFromJerz. "Days after Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is what we are doing. I’m going to throw up."
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"They’re bringing back guantanamo bay and going to turn it into a concentration camp," wrote @junIper.beer, who writes for the satirical newspaper The Onion.
"This is disgusting. Trump just announced he will sign an executive order to house migrants at Guantánamo Bay. Like they are f*cking war criminals!" wrote influencer Christopher Webb.
"What he's announcing is a concentration camp," wrote political science professor Emmett Macfarlane. "A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act."
Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified the owner of the social media account "Art Candee" as Candee Corliss. These two people are not the same. This article has been updated.
