Author: Carol Rosenberg
Published on: 10/03/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
In little over a month, the Trump administration has moved fewer than 300 men from an immigration holding site in Texas to the U.S. Military base at Guantánamo Bay. On Jan. 29, President Trump said the base would receive as many as 30,000 migrants awaiting deportation. For now, the operation can hold just 225 immigration detainees at a time, according to a briefing. 195 tents have space for 10 to 12 cots, but nobody is occupying them. At least 20 aircraft brought about 270 migrants to the base from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in El Paso between Feb. 4 and March 7. Members of Congress were told that all of those held there this weekend had final deportation orders. The operation has so far cost $16 million, Ms. Jacobs said. It was not clear whether that figure included charter and military flights. The administration may be recognizing that the base is less than an ideal way station. On March 4, ICE said it could not comment on that question “due to pending civil litigation” Some immigration advocates and civil liberties groups have asked a federal judge to order the administration to stop its “cruel, unnecessary and illegal transfers to and detention at Guantánamo” A court hearing is scheduled for Friday. ICE has reported the figure at $6,929 to $26,795 per flight hour, depending on aircraft requirements. The government has used the Global X charter firm to shuttle people between Texas You don’t want to be at Guantánamo Bay, which is where we housed Al Qaeda after 9/11. Carol Rosenberg has been covering the topic since the first detainees were brought to the U.S. Base in 2002. The strategy was working, until the inauguration.

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