Inside the Secretive Facility Housing Migrants at Guantanamo Bay [View all]

[Solly Mack]

U.S. officials have considered expanding it as crises like the chaos in Haiti send desperate people toward American shores.

In 2019, President Donald J. Trump suggested using the military base as a large-scale holding pen for immigrants from around the world, and he has promised to revive and toughen his immigration agenda if he wins re-election.


The article is from September 2024, but it shows the very real possibility of Trump detaining (some of) those he seeks to deport to Guantanamo.

There's a Migrant Operations Center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In case you didn't already know. History of Haitian and Cuban refugees being held there.

Not saying with certainty that he will. Am saying don't be surprised if he does. It is an option for him. At one point, the detention center held about 50,000 refugees/immigrants/migrant detainees.

Six in Ten Current ICE Immigrant Detainees Have no Criminal Record, Study Reveals

Six out of ten undocumented immigrants currently detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have no criminal record, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

In all, ICE detention centers held 38,863 individuals as of November 3rd, 23,588 of whom lacked any criminal background whatsoever, representing 60.7% of the detained population. Among those detainees with criminal records, "many have only minor offenses, including traffic violations," TRAC noted.

The study also revealed other insights about ICE facilities including the fact that the number of detainees held by ICE has been rising in recent months. October saw an increase of nearly 1,500 individuals compared to September.

Other insights included that over half of all detainees are housed in facilities in three states: Texas (12,017), Louisiana (6,779), and California (2,957) and that the largest detention facility in the U.S., the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez, Mississippi, holds an average daily population of 2,067 individuals.