Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay

[facedeer@fedia.io]

Sure would have been nice if Obama or Biden had actually closed Guantanamo Bay when they had the chance.

I liked to find silver linings where I can, and what I'm hoping is that when the shambles of the American government finally get back into Democratic hands (or whatever opposition party replaces them, at this point) there will finally be a realization that actual for real change is needed. Democratic politicians have been just treading water for decades now.

[als@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

When is a prison camp not a prison camp? When it's run by the USA! 🥴

[motor_spirit@lemmy.world]

"when it's a jarhead's"

there's close potential idfk

[sexy_peach@feddit.org]

Nah most people know migrants they care about

[laintrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

But those are the "good 'ombres"

[aidskitty@lemmy.world]

Where are you going to send them? Many times the immigrants home countries deny they are their citizens and refuse to accept them back. What do you do then?

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

The point of Guantanamo Bay is that it's not under Cuban law and also not quite under US law. So they really want to be able to do anything to the people they deport there.

Having seen some of these leopards-eating-my-face stories, I imagine there will be Trump voters who suddenly find themselves being tortured in Guantanamo Bay. It's very frustrating because everyone did try to warn them.

[bonifratz@lemm.ee]

Who says they're planning to send them anywhere?

[moakley@lemmy.world]

Are you suggesting that imprisoning them indefinitely is somehow the correct solution?

[superkret@feddit.org]

They're sending them to their auntie's farm up north

[tja@programming.dev]

It's not a prison, they're just concentrating them there.

[meco03211@lemmy.world]

Of course they are. Some are just created more equal.

[booberry@sh.itjust.works]

Right, because what Trump is doing is Biden’s and Obama’s fault…

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Do they know people without citizenship though?

[aidskitty@lemmy.world]

There is "no correct solution". What would you suggest?

[aidskitty@lemmy.world]

That is what deportation means, to send them back to their country of origin. If their home country refuses to accept them or denies they are their citizens then what do you do then?

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

Thank God he setup a prison camp to hold all the Trumpists and billionaires while they are waiting to be guillotined. That's going to come in handy.

[earphone843@sh.itjust.works]

Bold of you to assume that'll happen in our lifetime.

[industrystandard@lemmy.world]

Yes Trump is expanding on the human rights violations Obama and Biden put in place.

Take Trump’s order to construct a migrant detention centre in Guantánamo Bay – a space that has for years operated outside international law despite outcries and appeals for closure. Hundreds of prisoners were kept there under military law, often following rendition, disappearance and torture at CIA black sites. Trump’s proposal to detain tens of thousands of migrants there is an outrageous move, but it is not an aberration. He is building, literally, on what came before him.

“Like many of Trump’s authoritarian attacks on human rights, this one has shameful precedents in US history,” Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told CNN. “Long before the second Bush administration used the facility to hold and abuse nearly 800 Muslim men and boys as part of its ‘war on terror’, the first Bush administration held Haitian refugees there to try to deny them their rights under international law.” The prison, in fact, currently houses detained migrants in a facility called the Migrant Operations Center. Last year, the Biden administration awarded a private contractor over $160m (£130m) to run the facility.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/donald-trump-american-exceptionalism-guantanamo-bay-imperialism-billionaires