Guantanamo, Trump and Migrants
The Trump administration has halted efforts to place migrants in tent structures built at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba amid concerns that the emerging facilities don’t meet detention standards because they lack air conditioning or electricity,
More Troops Sent to Guantanamo Bay as Court Testimony Shows One-Third of Detainees Were 'Low Threat'
The number of troops being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of migrant detention operations there continues to swell, with approximately 1,100 service members now deployed to the Navy base.
Flights that left from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Thursday transported nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained on the island back to Venezuela.
U.S. immigration and military authorities say they are holding exclusively Venezuelan immigrants subject to final deportation orders at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
By establishing a 30,000-bed ICE facility on the Guantanamo Bay naval base, Trump has made an end run around the power Congress specifically gave itself as a check on the executive branch.
The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning.
Many of the migrants were being kept in a detention facility that has historically held suspected terrorists. They were flown back to Venezuela Thursday after a stop in Honduras.
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