The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.
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The administration apparently intends to transport tens of thousands of migrants to a military facility on an island — but we're apparently not supposed to see them as "the camps."
At the least, that was the plan. Evidently, Donald Trump has an entirely new vision for Guantánamo Bay’s near future. NBC News reported:
President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at the U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to ‘halt the border invasion.’
He went on to say that this facility would detain
“the worst” undocumented immigrants, adding that it would be “a tough place to get out of.”
The Republican has taken an interest in the base before. On the campaign trail in 2016, for example, Trump suggested he’d try to expand Guantánamo’s prison population, rather than try to shrink it. “
We’re gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we’re gonna load it up,” he boasted at the time......
Nevertheless, newly sworn in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sat down with Fox News — the former television personality’s previous employer — for his first interview since joining the White House Cabinet, and he insisted that Guantánamo Bay “is a perfect place” for migrants.
He also clarified that the mass detention facility would be separate from the high-security prison used to house terrorism suspects.
It was also of interest, however, when Hegseth took a moment to claim,
“This is not the camps. ... This is a temporary transit.”
Of course, if the administration intends to transport tens of thousands to a military facility on an island
, officials shouldn’t be too surprised if the word “camps” comes up from time to time.
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