GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — About 200 Marines and soldiers landed at Guantanamo Bay over the weekend to provide security and begin setting up at a new tent city for migrants, as officials comply with President Donald Trump’s order to prepare the Navy base for as many as 30,000 deportees.

The operation will require a surge of staff and goods to the isolated base, which is behind a Cuban minefield and is entirely dependent on air and sea supply missions from the United States.

Fulfilling the president’s order could grow the population there tenfold because of the staff it would take to operate the encampment, which is on a unpopulated corner of the base, far from the prison as well as the commissary, school and suburban-style neighborhoods for service members and their families. In response to Trump’s order, U.S. forces have already put up 50 Army green tents inside a chain-link-fence enclosure, adjacent to a barracks-style building called the Migrant Operations Center. The first wave of about 50 Marines arrived Saturday night. The next 50 arrived on Sunday.

– The New York Times