US president signs executive order to prepare huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay he says could hold 30,000 immigrantsRights groups were swift to condemn Donald Trump’s announcement that he would order the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantánamo Bay.Amnesty International said Guantánamo has been a “site of torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial and other unlawful practices”.Sending scores of immigrants to an inaccessible military base in Cuba could enable the government to deprive them of basic human rights, far from lawyers, the press, and Congressional oversight. Unfortunately, that appears to be the point.If that’s what conditions at Guantanamo were like under Biden, what will it be like when Trump requires the military to detain tens of thousands? Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/30/donald-trump-guantanamo-bay-rfk-jr-tulsi-gabbard-fbi-kash-patel-us-politics-latest-news
Author : Léonie Chao-Fong (now) and Christy Cooney (earlier)
Publish date : 2025-01-30 13:23:00
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