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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

‘America’s gulag’: Trump’s Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists

The Camp Delta detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006.
The Camp Delta detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

It has been denounced as “America’s gulag”: a secretive, abuse-ridden Caribbean prison camp for terror suspects that Donald Rumsfeld once said contained “the worst of the worst”.

“All of us have scars in our souls, deformities, from living at Guantánamo,” a former Yemeni inmate recalled of his time at the notorious military detention facility in south-east Cuba.

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