President Donald Trump is planning to send thousands more illegal migrants to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. This is part of his big plan to deport many people from the United States.

In February, Trump sent soldiers to help make the detention center at Guantanamo Bay bigger. This place is located at a US military base in Cuba.

This week, about 9,000 migrants might be moved to Guantanamo Bay starting as soon as Wednesday, according to a news report.

Right now, around 500 migrants have stayed at Guantanamo Bay for short times over the last few months.

A report showed that the US State Department is worried because several hundred Europeans, including more than 100 Russians and Romanians, are being held there.

A State Department official, who did not want to be named, said the plan is meant to shock and upset people, but the US still considers these countries as friends. The White House is also facing legal problems with this plan.

Trump said his government wants to hold up to 30,000 migrants who have serious criminal records at Guantanamo Bay.

Experts say migrants held at Guantanamo Bay still have legal rights under the US Constitution. The Supreme Court has said that even terror suspects have the right to a lawyer and to challenge their detention.

Eugene Fidell, a law expert from Yale University, explained that the government once thought Guantanamo was outside US law and that detainees had no rights. But the Supreme Court disagreed with that.

At the White House, Fidell said the goal is to keep these migrants from coming back to the US.

Trump’s border official, Tom Homan, told reporters that the military will add temporary tents to increase how many people the detention center can hold.

“We will just build more space on the current migrant center,” Homan said.