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The problem(s) with Trump’s new plan for Guantánamo Bay
Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know.
Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (Jan 29) he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants.
Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama fought to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, with the former reducing the prisoner count to 15. But President Donald Trump clearly doesn't agree with the approach and wants to fill GITMO with 30,
More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, here we are in the very same place we’ve been for endless years—on pause.
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will hold migrants at the notorious Guantanamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum to begin preparing a facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of “the worst” undocumented immigrants.
Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."
But Biden's team achieved a breakthrough in the case last summer: Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed agreed to plead guilty and serve life in prison in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. Two of Mohammed's alleged accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, also agreed to plea deals.
President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Notorious military prison Guantanamo Bay will be used to detain thousands of “criminal illegal aliens” under plans announced by Donald Trump...
The administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement would run the facility in Cuba and that the “the worst of the worst" could go to Guantanamo.
The Trump administration canceled former President Joe Biden’s extension of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans already in the US, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News, adding that the administration is evaluating using Guantanamo Bay as a destination for migrants.
President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.
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