Jacob Soboroff, the author of The New York Times bestselling book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy on the Trump administration's immigration policies, wrote the report with Ken Dilanian.
"A little-known immigrant holding facility on the base has a capacity of 120 people, the records say, and it 'will have an estimated daily population of 20 people,' according to a solicitation for bids issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security," the pair reported.
The DHS immigration facility at Gitmo has "a controversial past linked to Haiti."
"During the George H.W. Bush administration from 1991 to 1993, when many Haitians sought to flee the country to seek asylum in Florida, as many as 12,000 were sent to Guantánamo Bay under a policy overseen by then-Attorney General William Barr," NBC News reported. "President Donald Trump talked about sending migrants there, but he never did, according to a book by an author later identified as Miles Taylor, a former DHS official."
Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, only needed two words to offer her thoughts on the idea.
"Utterly shameful," she wrote.
Ocasio-Cortez wasn't the only Democrat in Congress criticizing the Biden administration over the move.
"The treatment of Haitian immigrants by this administration is going from bad to worse. Seeking asylum is not a crime," Rep. Chuy GarcÃa (D-IL) tweeted, adding the hashtag for "Close Gitmo Now."
"This is an embarrassingly bad decision. Do better," urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
NBC News published the report online as Democrats were holding a press conference urging better treatment of Haitian refugees by the administration.
