TV presenter Dr. Reuben Abati has stated that U.S. President Donald Trump does not have the moral authority to label individuals as criminals simply because they are migrants.

Abati made this remark while reacting to Trump's new order directing the Pentagon to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, with a capacity to hold up to 30,000 migrants.

The controversial directive has sparked mixed reactions across traditional and social media globally.

While deportations continue under Trump's second administration, the move to expand the existing facility places the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in charge of its operations.

Speaking on the Arise Morning Show on Thursday, January 30, Abati questioned Trump's credibility in labeling others as criminals, pointing out that Trump himself is a convicted felon.

He said: "Now, Trump says he's going to keep 30,000 persons he calls dangerous criminals, worst of the worst, you know, people who will be hard to deport. What is his justification? His justification is that some of these people that we are deporting, almost about 1.7 million illegal migrants that if they go to their countries, they could find their way back."

"But if it sends them to Guantanamo Bay, they will become, there's no way they can get out. Now, we have migrants being treated like terrorists. Is that fair? The president of Cuba says that this is an act of brutality, and I think he is right in saying so. Now, President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum. It wasn't an executive order initially."

"If you look at it from a moral point of view, I don't want to complete that line of thought. Does President Trump has the moral right to declare anybody a criminal just for being a migrant? Before anybody can be declared a criminal, these people have not been taken to court. There's no record of conviction against them. And he thinks he has a moral right to say somebody is a criminal."