President Donald Trump has proposed using Guantanamo Bay, a prison notorious for human rights abuses, to detain deported migrants as part of his hardline immigration policy. This expansion plan has sparked global outrage and concerns of further human rights violations.

The Trump Administration is backing away from a previous promise to only send the "worst of the worst" to Guantanamo Bay, and according to CBS News, has been sending non-violent, low risk undocumented migrants to facilities at Guantanamo Bay during the repatriation process.

WASHINGTON—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a trip Friday to Guantanamo Bay, as the Trump administration steps up use of the naval base in seeking to emphasize toughness against migrants it says have criminal backgrounds.

In-depth: Trump campaigned for president on mass deportation. He's now taking his promise to Guantanamo Bay, where tens of thousands of migrants are being sent.

The White House has confirmed that the U.S. has begun sending migrants to Guantanamo Bay under President Trump’s immigration policy.

President Trump has said the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay would house what he called the "worst" migrants. Still, according to both internal government documents and U.S. officials, the administration is also sending nonviolent detainees who do not have serious criminal records or in some cases any criminal records at all.

"It will now be up to the courts to ensure that immigrants cannot be warehoused on offshore islands," said a representative of the ACLU through a statement