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,
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will hold migrants at the notorious Guantanamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of
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."
In his final days, Biden brokered a ceasefire, supported Ukraine, imposed Russia sanctions, extended deportation relief, commuted drug sentences, advanced environmental protections, and worked to close Guantanamo Bay.
Notorious military prison Guantanamo Bay will be used to detain thousands of “criminal illegal aliens” under plans announced by Donald Trump...
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.
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.
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.
President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.
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.