Guantanamo Bay, Migrants

The Government’s Plan to Hold Migrants at Guantanamo Bay Just Got Shut Down by the Courts
President Donald Trump promised to utilize Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants as part of his mass deportation plans. Those plans seem to be coming to a sudden stop after legal challenges. President Trump originally announced that the federal government would be building structures to hold 30,
Senate Democrats challenge transfer of migrants to Guantanamo Bay
A group of five Senate Democrats led by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter to President Trump Monday challenging his transfer of migrants to detention centers at the U.S. Naval station in
Nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants are flown home from Guantanamo Bay, with a layover in Honduras
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S. deportations.
Guantanamo Bay still being used to detain migrants despite transfers: Tom Homan
President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed that the administration will continue to use Guantanamo Bay as a holding facility for migrants after the Department of Homeland Security transferred over a hundred Venezuelan detainees out of the facility on Thursday.
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.
US halts plan to house migrants in tents at Guantanamo amid concerns over conditions
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,
US again sends ‘high threat’ migrants to Guantanamo Bay
A U.S. defense official confirmed to VOA that a C-130 military cargo plane carrying migrants left Fort Bliss in Texas and arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Sunday. A second defense official said all 17 migrants were assessed to be “high threat” and are being held at the base’s detention facility.
Guantanamo Bay: A new front in US immigration policy?
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to send 30,000 undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay. While the Migrant Operations Center ...
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Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention
During his two weeks at the Guantánamo Bay naval station, Uzcátegui, 27, said he was rarely let outside. Both times, he was ...
'Traumatized': Venezuelan speaks on conditions inside Guantanamo Bay
A Venezuelan migrant, Kevin Rodriguez, speaks on the conditions inside the military base Guantanamo Bay. NBC News' Marissa ...
Trump Administration Moves More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay
The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United ...
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California’s Democrat U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Denounces President Trump’s Unlawful Transfer of Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
California’s Democrat U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Denounces President Trump’s Unlawful Transfer of Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay ...
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Troops deployed to Guantanamo Bay increased to roughly 1,000
More than 200 additional troops have been deployed to Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to help support the detention of ...
What We Know About the Secretive Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base ...