Jan 30, 2025
“Beyond the Pale” – IRAP Denounces Trump Plan to Expand Detention of Migrants at Guantánamo Bay
Yesterday, President Trump signed a memo directing the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to expand the Guantánamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, signaling in a speech an intent to detain up to 30,000 people there. This would be the first time since the 1990s that the U.S. government would use Guantánamo to detain immigrants at this scale, and the first time ever the facility would be used to detain people already present in the United States.
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