The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are racing to set up multiple tent facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house thousands of migrants, but the scattered efforts have prompted questions internally about who’s in charge and what will happen once people arrive on site.

Senators call Trump's move 'unprecedented, unlawful and harmful to American national security, values and interests' - Anadolu Ajansı