Mr. Homan and Secretary Noem, can we ask you a few questions here, please? Would you guys gaggle with reporters for a few moments? Thank you. Thank you.
You are both the top immigration advisors to President Trump in addition to Stephen Miller. He just announced that he's signing an executive order to -- to put 30,000 detention beds at Guantanamo Bay. I know, Mr. Homan, you've talked about needing more beds, but how exactly would that work, and when do you expect it to open?
You know that is something that the White House is working on to use resources that we currently have there at Guantanamo Bay. So, we'll go through the process. The worst of the worst is where that could be utilized. So, that potential is there. We know we need the infrastructure. Um, we're going after these guys.
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But who would run that, DHS? DHS or the Pentagon.
Wait, wait, wait. What you probably don't know, there's already a migrant center there. It's been there for decades. So, we're just going to expand upon the existing migrant center.
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What actions --
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How would logistics work for that? How would you get migrants down to Guantanamo Bay?
We fly them. We fly them to Guantanamo. Coast Guard, they encounter people in maritime. They can take them straight to Guantanamo Bay, the worst of the worst, the significant public safety threats we can find. We fly --
We're doing it. We're already doing it.
Would that be more expensive?
We're building it out and using more resources --
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What is the worst? What is the worst of the worst?
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Mr. Homan what kind of -- Secretary Noem, what kind of civilian oversight would there be?
Civilian oversight?
Yeah.
The current civilian oversight that we have in our federal government today. We had an election in November that clearly said the American people don't want these criminals and dangerous individuals on our streets anymore. We're taking care of it at the direction of the president.
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I think you said they wanted -- Did they say they wanted --
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What's your message for Polish Americans who voted for President Trump and may have neighbors or family members who are undocumented who are illegally here?
Listen, the law applies to everybody. It applies to American citizens. It applies to people who come into this country illegally. You will be held accountable for breaking our laws.
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Will you focus on people who are --
To your question earlier -- ICE.
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-- relations at all --
Go ahead, Mr. Homan.
ICE has the highest detention standards in the industry. You can't find another state, federal or local city that has higher detention standards than ICE. So, every facility including, GTMO, will have the highest --
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So, ICE would be running it? That's -- that's actually really helpful. So, ICE would be running and would be staffing that.
Of course. That's our migrant center run out of Miami.
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And any further actions --
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Mr. Homan, isn't it ICE's --
I hope you all are spending your time today covering Laken Riley and her family and this bill and the tools that it's going to give to make sure that families don't have to go through that again.
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Well on --
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We're covering that and this.
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One question that we'd like to ask is if you have a sense of how much money it will cost? Uh, how much money will be invested in this facility?
The bill or the facility?
In the facility at Guantanamo Bay that the president announced?
We're working on that with reconciliation and appropriators in the House.
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Have any actions been taken on those who --
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-- ISIS policy to house people close to their families? Is there a change in that policy? What will happen to the remaining Guantanamo detainees?