US: Don’t Send Migrants to the Black Hole of Guantánamo

By Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) – On January 29, 2025, United States President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a 30,000-bed facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to detain migrants.President Trump’s statement that he intends to use Guantánamo to detain migrants because “[w]e don’t even trust the countries to hold them [and] we don't want them coming back,” suggests an intention to hold people in limbo for a long time. Guantánamo is a remote, highly controlled overseas US military installation, which the US government has used to evade legal protections and public scrutiny. Human Rights Watch…

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