Thread: Club Guantanamo Ho Ho

Trump announces 30k places at Guantanamo the US base in Cuba as place to send deportees.

He seemed bigly pleased with that as his spendong freeze already reversed.

Trump Will Use Gitmo to Detain 30,000 Rounded-up Migrants

Donald Trump has revealed that he is opening up Guantanamo Bay to house as many as 30,000 undocumented immigrants.


The president said 30,000 beds were being prepared in Guantanamo Bay to detain “the worst criminal aliens threatening America.”

“That’s a tough place to get out of,” he added.


Gitmo has been used as a temporary detainment center for a handful of would-be migrants, but Trump’s announcement suggests a massive expansion of the remote island facility. It was used to house terror suspects captured after the September 11 attacks.

“Today, I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said in a surprise announcement just before he signed the first bill of his presidency, the Laken Riley Act, which cracks down on undocumented immigrants who are accused of criminal offenses.


“Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” added Trump.


“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo. This will double our capacity immediately,” he added.


Asked about the development, new Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said there “may be some resources for the worst of the worst” to be held at Guantanamo Bay.


Raids by ICE teams targeting immigrants in the U.S. illegally have rounded up scores of people in recent days, raising questions about where they will be housed.


Originally opened as “an island outside the law” when it opened in 2002, Guantanamo Bay was used to interrogate terror suspects without the normal restraints and, first Barack Obama, and later Joe Biden tried to close it down. Currently, there are just 15 inmates.

It is reportedly also used as a holding center for some migrants intercepted while trying to reach the United States by sea. But the military base off Cuba still operates outside the mainland immigration laws, according to The New York Times.


An internal government report said the camp was beset by rats and overflowing toilets and inmates were blindfolded while being moved around the facility.


Only 37 migrants were held at Gitmo—the name used as shorthand for the island by the U.S. military—between 2020 to 2023.


In 2019, Trump claimed he wanted to use the base as a giant holding pen for immigrants from around the world.

Trump Will Use Guantanamo Bay to Detain 30,000 Rounded-up Migrants

American geography - Guantanamo is an island.. Is it so hard to say Cuba?