Trump’s Migrants-To-Gitmo Plan Is Expensive Failure

March 14, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The Washington Post reports:

When President Donald Trump directed the U.S. government to begin using the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station as a detention center for migrants in late January, he said it would “double our capacity immediately” to hold people being removed from the country as part of a massive deportation campaign.

But nearly two months later, the operation has struggled to scale up. On Wednesday, a Defense Department official confirmed there were no migrants being held in Guantánamo. Forty men who were still there earlier in the week have since been flown back to the United States.

The U.S. government currently has the capacity to hold 180 migrants in Guantánamo. Authorities could detain up to 3,120 more migrants there if tents put up by troops were equipped with utilities like air conditioning. But for now the 195 tents are empty. Defense Department officials said they have held off on taking steps to fix them up for further use without the migrants to fill them

The Daily Beast reports:

Trump’s failed operation to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay has already burned through at least $16 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. That figure does not include the wildly expensive flights—it costs more than $20,000 to transport a single migrant to the base on military planes.

Trump’s scheme to house up to 30,000 migrants in a tent city on the base collapsed before it could begin. Only about 300 migrants have passed through the base since the president announced the operation, and none are detained there now.

Despite claims that only undocumented migrants with criminal backgrounds would be sent to Gitmo, a significant number of those detained hadn’t committed crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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