US President Donald Trump’s plan to house 30,000 undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay gained pace this week as the first flights arrived on the island off the coast of Cuba. As administration officials debate the legality of the plan and others warn of human rights abuses,

As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to the facility,

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.