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deminks

(11,341 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:58 PM Jan 29

Donald opens up GITMO for deportation destination

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lgvqk4bny22x

Migrant concentrations camps at Guantanamo Bay. Courtesy of Donald Trump.

Trump: 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

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Guess he doesn't want to lose any more fights with countries that won't take his shackled immigrants/political enemies/citizens of US/veterans.

IMPEACH

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Donald opens up GITMO for deportation destination (Original Post) deminks Jan 29 OP
What was it Traildogbob Jan 29 #1
When you fire the entire federal workforce, you can save some cash. Irish_Dem Jan 29 #9
Aren't Judges and Traildogbob Jan 29 #15
The GOP uses the laws to protect themselves and punish and control everyone else. Irish_Dem Jan 29 #22
... Solly Mack Jan 29 #2
People think it can't happen Johnny2X2X Jan 29 #3
Agreed. No qualms about it Evolve Dammit Jan 29 #5
Ugh. Gitmo was on the outer fringe of my speculation 2 days ago. They're doing it. Eugene Jan 29 #4
Won't the prison industrial complex be pissed? n/t OneGrassRoot Jan 29 #6
why can't they get in on the act? stillcool Jan 29 #7
No doubt they can, but... OneGrassRoot Jan 29 #14
ah well you know those prison corporations stillcool Jan 29 #20
So, the American tax payer Coolgoober Jan 29 #8
Yep take hard working people paying taxes, self supporting and jail them. Irish_Dem Jan 29 #10
So it's official: We have concentration camps. Coventina Jan 29 #11
Faux feedback loop..... AZmikey Jan 29 #12
Will he be hiring veteran guards from Abu Ghraib to supervise the torture? Ping Tung Jan 29 #13
Apparently been used before for that, but in smaller numbers, I think for Haitians EX500rider Jan 29 #16
Didn't even take 4 hours to get the next atrocity... JCMach1 Jan 29 #17
With any luck he'll die as a prisoner there. hunter Jan 29 #18
I think it is not logistically feasible Zorro Jan 29 #19
He's some kind of Monster. spanone Jan 29 #21
The problem(s) with Trump's new plan for Guantnamo Bay LetMyPeopleVote Jan 31 #23

Traildogbob

(10,650 posts)
1. What was it
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:06 PM
Jan 29

The Bimbo Blonde with the huge cross said yesterday? The Biden Admin was spending like a drunken Sailor? Trump is burning cash right and left on this shit show with an unlimited bank account, filled with our money. What’s the tab so far, and how much will GITMO cost our account, while he freezes any of it helping us survive.
As a Sailor that drank here and there, we never had any fucking money to spend, drunk or sober.
GITMO has a very good use ahead. To house trump and all his treasonous elected ass holes and these that were ever elected pulling the strings.

Traildogbob

(10,650 posts)
15. Aren't Judges and
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jan 29

Congress, federal employees, and his whole cabinet?
How will Thomas fuel his bus ? Exxon free deliveries of “TIP” gifts. No taxes on TIPs either.

Irish_Dem

(64,306 posts)
22. The GOP uses the laws to protect themselves and punish and control everyone else.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 05:50 PM
Jan 29

The billionaires will make sure the judges and politicians get the huge bribes.

Johnny2X2X

(22,333 posts)
3. People think it can't happen
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:10 PM
Jan 29

But it can. It's too expensive to deport this many people, detention camps will be filled, and then the abuses will start and atrocities are assured.

OneGrassRoot

(23,621 posts)
14. No doubt they can, but...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:28 PM
Jan 29

a lot of money was already spent in TX building detention facilities for dear leader’s plans.

stillcool

(33,213 posts)
20. ah well you know those prison corporations
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 05:43 PM
Jan 29

if they build it, the people will come. Got to love that labor.

Coolgoober

(22 posts)
8. So, the American tax payer
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:41 PM
Jan 29

Is going to be taking care of these people is better than leaving them the fuck alone to go to work, pay taxes, etc............

Irish_Dem

(64,306 posts)
10. Yep take hard working people paying taxes, self supporting and jail them.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:03 PM
Jan 29

We then foot the bill for food, shelter, clothing, medical care.

AZmikey

(31 posts)
12. Faux feedback loop.....
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:05 PM
Jan 29

Apparently the idea was floated just hours earlier on Fox when Kilmeade brought it up to Noem…..

“Hours after the idea was floated on Trump's favorite morning show, the president revealed that he was indeed going to use the infamous prison camp to house tens of thousands of migrants — once again showing the Trump-Fox feedback loop in real-time.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-guantanamo-migrants-trump-b2688690.html

EX500rider

(11,749 posts)
16. Apparently been used before for that, but in smaller numbers, I think for Haitians
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:48 PM
Jan 29
Various US administrations in the past have housed migrants at a facility called the Guantánamo Migrant Operations Center, or GMOC.


https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyw5l584knt

JCMach1

(28,373 posts)
17. Didn't even take 4 hours to get the next atrocity...
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jan 29

Everything all the time, even if this one is a lie to seem like he's being tough on deportations.

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,577 posts)
23. The problem(s) with Trump's new plan for Guantnamo Bay
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 08:18 PM
Jan 31

The president has instructed officials to “begin preparing” a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at Guantánamo Bay. The list of concerns is not short.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lgxqlcvoxs2c

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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