Trump still wants to use the base for detention, but a scaled-down version is the likeliest outcome, sources said.

Summary

Trump’s plan to detain 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo Bay faces major legal, financial, and logistical hurdles.

Costs are high, with military flights costing up to $27,000 per detainee. Facilities lack essentials like air conditioning and running water, failing ICE standards.

Legal challenges, including an ACLU lawsuit, cite inhumane conditions. Interagency conflicts have delayed implementation, and alternative U.S. military bases are being considered.

Amid criticism from human rights groups and international bodies, the administration is reassessing the plan, likely scaling it down or seeking domestic detention options.

  • Arghblarg
    36•12 hours ago

    … but not rethinking it due to the insanely illegal and unethical crime against humanity that it is. OK.

    So they’ll just make their concentration camps reside within U.S. borders.

    • @taiyang
      7•8 hours ago

      They’re evil, yes, but they’re also stupid.

  • @thesohoriotsEnglish
    27•12 hours ago

    TIL even ICE has standards, which I assume are for the guard towers.

    • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
      7•11 hours ago

      The ICE policies and infrastructure wasn’t originally setup to be the shithole it has become over the years.

      Some of those minimum standards are still there in some places where they didn’t get in the way of being pieces of shit.