'Act of brutality': Cuba rebukes Donald Trump's Guantanamo Bay migrant detention plan

[microwave@lemmy.world]

Summary

Donald Trump announced an executive order to expand migrant detention at Guantanamo Bay, authorizing the Pentagon and DHS to prepare facilities for up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the plan as "an act of brutality," criticizing U.S. use of Guantanamo for detention.

Refugee advocates also decried the facility’s conditions.

The expansion follows Trump’s signing of the Laken Riley Act, which increases pre-trial detention for undocumented migrants accused of crimes.

[bieren@lemmy.world]

What would it take for Cuba to break the lease agreement and tell the US to gtfo?

[6jarjar6@lemmy.sdf.org]

They don't accept the payment that the U.S. provides. I don't think they can force the U.S. off the island. I'm sure they would have by now if they could.

[tikiporch@lemmy.world]

Cuba and the US must mutually decide to end the lease. That's not happening.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

One of them has their hand on the water and power controls. If it's the right one, then the problem solves itself.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Military superiority.

[madison420@lemmy.world]

They've only cashed a single check for it iirc and that was by mistake. Castro famously would show off his stack of checks from the American government.

[atzanteol@sh.itjust.works]

It's amazing how many people ignore the reality of "bigger army diplomacy".

[gerudo@lemm.ee]

Isn't Guantanamo Bay specifically there as a gray area prison that doesn't have to abide by US laws and guidelines?

[z3ror0ne@lemmy.ml]

And then the US said to Germany, "We too, can do Auschwitz."