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Héctor Ríos Morales

Tens Of Cubans, Some Considered 'High-Threat,' Become First Migrants Sent To Guantanamo Bay In Months

U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay (Credit: AFP / Sylvie LANTEAUME)

At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center, established in the early 2000s to hold suspected terrorists following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Although Trump's initial plan envisioned holding tens of thousands of migrants at the facility, only a few hundred have been transferred there since January. According to a recent report by The New York Times, the U.S. naval base, which had been empty since October, received its first set of detainees this week when 22 Cuban migrants arrived.

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