President Donald Trump’s plan to house tens of thousands of illegal immigrants at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba is struggling to get past numerous logistical and legal challenges. The mega detention facility that Trump envisioned a plane ride away from Florida has gone largely empty in the month and a half since the

President Donald Trump’s high-profile effort to transfer migrants from the United States to the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is being buffeted by concerns inside and outside his administration over living conditions there and the arduous,

U.S. immigration and military authorities say that immigrants from 27 countries were being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba, while revealing new details of conditions of confinement and defending the government’s authority to transfer and hold immigrants to the military base.

Currently, there are no migrants being held at the base despite initial plans for the facility to hold up to 30,000 illegal migrants.

A Washington, D.C., judge gave the Trump administration the green light to continue detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The judge argued that because the Trump administration has removed the migrants it sent there,

The Trump administration's plan to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay is facing a legal challenge. NBC News' Julia Ainsley reports more from outside the courthouse. Former Rep. David Jolly and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Chris Jansing to discuss the potential political impact of this move by Trump.

Trump’s failed operation to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay has already burned through at least $16 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. That figure does not include the wildly expensive flights—it costs more than $20,