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Fox host Brian Kilmeade on housing legal migrants: “Have you ruled out Gitmo?”

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From the January 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Real quick, what are you going to do with the Venezuelans, the Cubans, when these countries don't want to take them back? We got 607,000 Venezuelans here, what do we do?

KRISTI NOEM (DHS SECRETARY): Well we have a fantastic Secretary of State in Secretary Rubio. And he has been doing incredible work, you know the other night I was talking to him on the phone at 1:00 in the morning, and he was up and still discussing negotiations with other countries and working with his people in these countries to do diplomatic relations, and the president clearly will exercise all the authority and power that he has to make these countries take them back.

BRIAN KILMEADE: Are you ruling out Gitmo?

KRISTI NOEM: We're evaluating and talking about that right now, it's the president's decision, but it's an asset and we're going to continue to look at 
how we can use all of our assets to keep America safe.

The “607,000 Venezuelans” that Fox host Brian Kilmeade mentions in this segment refers to people who are here legally under the 2023 designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuela. The Department of Homeland Security extended that status on January 15, 2025, however the Trump administration revoked the extension on January 28, which could open the beneficiaries up “to deportation in the coming months.”