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

The administration flew almost all of the migrants it had held in the facility in Cuba to Honduras, and one to detention in the U.S., NBC News has learned.

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.

The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.

A group of five Senate Democrats led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter to President Trump Monday challenging his transfer of migrants to detention centers at the U.S. Naval station in

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Tuesday to visit the migrant detention center the department restarted using in recent weeks. The military deployed hundreds of service members to the base after President Donald Trump ordered the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to use it to house dangerous migrants

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will inspect the facilities in Guantanamo Bay where the Trump administration hopes to house migrants deported from the U.S. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will visit Guantánamo Bay today as the Trump administration uses it to house deported migrants.