All posts tagged "Guantanamo Bay"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a jaw-dropping claim about prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that has left onlookers shocked.

Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, also known as Gitmo, holds prisoners accused of terrorism, including the jihadists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. While speaking outside Guantanamo Bay, Hegseth told reporters, "These Gitmo detainees should have been executed in my mind personally a long time ago."

On Bluesky, commentators shared their dismay at hearing the comments. Joe Stieb, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote, "It's staggering to think what these people would have done if they had been in power on 911," and "How does one make Dick Cheney look humane?"...

CNN's Boris Sanchez pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday on the administration's intention to detain undocumented migrants at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

President Donald Trump made the announcement Wednesday before signing the Laken Riley Act into law.

"We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back," Trump said. ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he's ordering the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare Guantanamo Bay to house undocumented migrants.

The president made the announcement before signing the Laken Riley Act that received bipartisan support in Congress.

"Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back. So, we're going to send them out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately. That's a tough, that's a tough place to get out of," Trump said....

The United States has appealed an order from a military judge at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo that they turn over information on secret CIA interrogation centers.