White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the first flights of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba were underway—following an escalation of arrests across the country as part of what President Donald Trump has promised would be the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.

Cargo planes from Joint Base Lewis-McChord are being used in the Trump administration’s ramped-up deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, The News Tribune has learned.

U.S. officials say the first military aircraft carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay is expected to depart on Tuesday.

The United States started flying undocumented migrants out to Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday under President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.

A U.S. official says the first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay has departed and is expected to arrive later this evening

The first U.S. military aircraft carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay departed on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump's administration prepares to potentially house tens of thousands of migrants at the naval base in Cuba.