Tag Archives: Gitmo

The New York Times reports: Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there over the weekend as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month. The Senate delegation on Friday toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities where about 85 migrants were …

NewsNation reports: The Trump administration on Tuesday began flying immigrants who entered the country illegally to Guantanamo Bay amid plans to use the facility in Cuba to house thousands of migrants. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the first flights from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay carrying “illegal migrants” were underway. “President Trump is not messing around, and …

NBC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday said that “due process will be followed” for all migrants housed at Guantanamo Bay. Noem reiterated the Trump administration’s goal of housing the “worst of the worst” migrants at Guantanamo Bay, referring to those who have committed crimes while living in the U.S. illegally. Still, Noem dodged multiple questions about …

Semafor reports: Showtime slated “The Guantanamo Candidate,” a 30 minute-long episode of its Vice documentary series, for May 28. The episode opens with a shot of the outside the US prison complex at the southern tip of Cuba, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis served as a lawyer from March 2006 to January 2007. But Showtime viewers who turned on their …

From the editorial board of the Miami Herald: The more we hear about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ time as a Navy lawyer in Guantánamo in the spring of 2006, the more questions we have — and the more we think voters need to know. Here is a man who spends an extraordinary amount of time fighting the so-called war against woke, …

Vice News reports: Jan. 6 defendants held in the D.C. jail’s so-called “Patriot Wing” are demanding to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay’s military prison—which is notorious for human rights abuses—because they think it would have better amenities. Thirty-four detainees who are either awaiting trial or serving sentences in connection with the violent riot at the Capitol signed a letter re-asserting …

Wingnuts are screaming, of course. USA Today reports: Keeping the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay open is “contrary to our values,” President Obama said Tuesday, as he released a plan that examined 13 potential sites for transferring the suspected terrorists but did not propose any specific location. His plan sets up a last-year confrontation with Congress about a campaign …