Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is ordering officials to establish a massive migrant detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He made the announcement during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, which allows authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
US has held migrants at Guantánamo Bay before, but Trump’s approach is different
In the 1990s, the U.S. used Guantánamo Bay to hold Haitian and Cuban immigrants intercepted at sea. The Trump administration is now sending to Guantánamo people who were arrested on U.S. soil. That hasn’t happened before.
Civil liberties and immigration advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over its use of the base for immigration ...
Trump issued his memo instructing the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare for the arrival of 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay. The facility in Cuba was used ...
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