This week has brought an avalanche of news, from a tragic aerial collision in Washington, D.C., to more executive orders.

Defense officials are trying to figure out how to hold thousands of people on an aging military base with minimal staff.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he plans to send 30,000 criminal illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to ensure they don't return.

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum to begin preparing a facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of “the worst” undocumented immigrants.

Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday approving the use of the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of as many as 30,000 immigrants. The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.

The US president says he will order the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the facility to house as many as 30,000 migrants.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. "Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,

The president said the facility at the U.S. naval base could house as many as 30,000 people

A flurry of military-focused executive orders from the White House on Monday meant newly-confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first day on the job would be anything but leisurely.

The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape.