Guantánamo Bay’s forgotten history of detaining Haitian migrants
In the 1990s, thousands of Haitians fleeing political violence in their country were sent to Guantánamo Bay for detention. #haiti
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.
The “Punitive Theater” of Trump’s Plan to Send Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
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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.
Trump administration sends first group of migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay
The U.S. government is moving quickly to implement President Trump's order to turn facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base into a large-scale immigration detention center.
Court Blocks Donald Trump Sending Migrants to Guantanamo Bay
A federal court on Sunday prevented the Trump administration from transferring three Venezuelan men from an immigration detention center in New Mexico to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, according to the immigrants' lawyer.
Judge blocks Venezuelan migrants from being sent to Guantánamo Bay
Federal court blocks Trump administration from sending Venezuelan immigrants to Guantanamo Bay, challenging plans to detain migrants in Cuba.
Court blocks Trump administration from sending three migrants to Guantánamo
A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three migrants to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. District Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales temporarily halted the transfer of three migrants from Venezuela,
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Flashback: The Little-Known History of Guantanamo Bay
President Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the naval base brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian asylum seekers there starting in the early ...
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History of Illegal Aliens at Guantanamo Bay
Trump’s decision to temporarily house criminal illegal aliens at Gitmo has earned headlines across the media, but the move is ...
Trump’s Plan for Mass Detention at Guantánamo Has Happened Before. It Was a Disaster.
In their nearly one-year detention at the base, the children had seen thousands of Cuban migrants hauled by the US Coast ...
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Can the United States Send Undocumented Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay?
Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants includes a plan to transport potentially thousands to Guantánamo Bay. It is likely to spur international ...
Trump’s Guantanamo migrant plan evokes a dark history
The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail ...
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Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Demand Trump Administration Provide Information, Access to Immigrants Transferred to Guantánamo Bay
“Sending immigrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo and holding them incommunicado without access to counsel or the outside world opens a new shameful chapter in the history of this ...