Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would consider sending the suspect arrested after the terrorist attack in New York to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and called on Congress to cancel a long-standing immigration program that he blamed for allowing the man into the country. The president’s comments came at the beginning of a Cabinet meeting a day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan plowed a pickup truck along a crowded bicycle path in Manhattan, killing eight people. Asked by reporters if he would send the suspect to Guantanamo, Trump said, “I would certainly consider that.” “Send him to Gitmo, I would certainly consider that, yes,” Trump said. No one arrested on U.S. soil has ever been sent to Guantánamo Bay, and no one captured on foreign soil has been sent there since 2008. Transferring the suspect from New York would raise a host of constitutional and legal issues, and it was not clear that Trump actually would follow through on the idea since his comment was in reaction to a question rather than part of his prepared remarks. The remarks he had outlined in advance focused on immigration. “I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program,” he said. “I am going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program.” “It sounds nice,” he added of the diversity p... Link to the full article to read more