1 day ago · President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

1 day ago · President Donald Trump says he’s directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 immigrants who are living illegally in the United States. ... Trump’s order “sends a clear message: migrants and asylum seekers are being cast as the new terrorist threat, deserving to be discarded in an island prison ...

1 day ago · President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at the U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was ...

1 day ago · At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are ...

1 day ago · I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full ...

2 days ago · The U.S. military base has been used to house detainees from the U.S. war on terrorism for years. But authorities have also detained migrants at sea at a facility known as the Migrant Operations Center on Guantanamo, a site the U.S. has long leased from the Cuban government. Many of those housed there have been migrants from Haiti and Cuba.

1 day ago · Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on X: “The US government’s decision to imprison migrants at the Guantanamo Naval Base, in an enclave where it created torture and indefinite detention ...

2 days ago · The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape. By Hamed Aleaziz and Carol Rosenberg Hamed Aleaziz reported from Washington, and ...

1 day ago · The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was set up in 2002 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to detain foreign militant suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States ...

Sep 19, 2024 · For decades, migrants intercepted at sea as they try to reach the United States have been sent to a facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a place better known for the U.S. prison camp for terror...