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Guantanamo Bay Now Holds 72 Migrants Under Final Deportation Orders in High- and Low-Risk Camps

The Department of Homeland Security defends the use of Guantanamo Bay for migrants with criminal convictions under final deportation orders.

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People walk past a guard tower outside the fencing of Camp 5 at the US Military's Prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on January 26, 2017. President Donald Trump has said he "absolutely" thinks torture works, but doctors, lawyers for terror suspects, and even fellow Republicans have pledged to oppose any effort to reinstate waterboarding or other banned interrogation techniques. / AFP / Thomas WATKINS (Photo credit should read THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overview

  • There are 72 immigration detainees at Guantanamo Bay as of July 8, with 58 deemed high-risk and detained in Camp IV and 14 classified low-risk and held at the Migrant Operations Center.
  • Detainees originate from 26 countries across six continents and all have final deportation orders.
  • Criminal histories among high-risk detainees include convictions for homicide, sexual offenses against children, child pornography, assault with a weapon, kidnapping, drug smuggling and robbery.
  • The base has processed 663 migrants since February, falling well short of the 30,000 capacity President Trump authorized in January.
  • Civil rights groups led by the ACLU have sued to block the detentions, arguing that U.S. law does not permit holding immigration detainees outside national territory.