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 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.

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.

All of the remaining migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been moved to Louisiana over the last two days, according to a U.S. official.