It’s the way things work these days with Trump and Project 2025…
No heads up….
No questions on feasibility or logistics….
(There are only 15 prisnors there now..)
Just throwdowns from on High…..
As usual…
With Trump?
It’s a fucking Mess….
President Donald Trump’s plan to use Guantanamo Bay to detain migrants thrusts the Pentagon into a challenging, costly new effort just as officials vow to refocus the military on its core mission.
The recent executive order to move thousands of noncitizens to an aging military base in Cuba came as a shock to the Pentagon. Officials are now rushing to come up with a plan to house up to 30,000 people, far more than the 780 detainees who stayed in a detention camp on the base during the peak of the war on terror.
Defense Department officials are discussing using tents, although they face the challenge of tropical weather, limited staff and access to medical treatments for migrants. And they’re attempting to balance resources and finances with another Trump order that troops head to the southern border to enhance security.
“Things are moving as we speak,” said one defense official, who was granted anonymity to discuss a rapidly evolving issue.
The official, like others, was caught flatfooted on Wednesday by Trump’s announcement. The person had no details about what the precise orders would be, when the detainees would arrive or what their housing might look like.
The effort to hold such a large number of people on the 45 square-mile naval base, which the U.S. has leased since 1903, would prove a much greater logistical lift than what the military has handled before. Only 15 detainees remain at the base’s detention facility after the Biden administration transferred nearly a dozen people from Guantanamo to Oman in an effort to reduce the inmate population.
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The base’s detention facilities were designed for the Coast Guard to bring in migrants they pick up at sea. A small group of people, mostly Haitian and Cuban refugees, are currently housed at Guantanamo’s Migrant Operations Center….
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The Defense and Homeland Security departments could stand up a “reasonable tent city” at Guantanamo within 10 days to two weeks, said a former senior administration official, who was granted anonymity to talk about the logistical challenges on the base.
But providing sanitation, food, drinkable water and medical care for tens of thousands of migrants could take months. Those supplies would need to arrive by air or sea, and the Trump administration would have to swell the American presence on the base to include a migrant camp with law enforcement officers, military police, doctors, nurses, and even teachers and janitors….
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