Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30k migrants(reuters.com)

7 pointsby bobongoletztes Jahr3 comments

Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30k migrants

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-instruct-homeland-security-pentagon-prepare-migrant-facility-2025-01-29/

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Terr_letztes Jahr

For context, Guantanamo's "usual" usage/population numbers would be something like ~700 prisoners and ~6000 of everybody else.

So this is a demand is for a big change to the place.

Terr_letztes Jahr

I am strongly reminded of another time when a government plotted to forcibly deport lots of people to an extraterritorial-limbo island under their control, and I don't think it's too soon to bring it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

eesmithletztes Jahr

When it was a refugee camp during the Haitian refugee crisis starting in 1991, it held 12,500 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_refugee_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Cuban_rafter_crisis says during 1994 Cuban rafter crisis 'Around 20,000 rafters would be detained at the base.' but it does not say how many were held at the same time.

[deleted]letztes Jahr