Trump promised to hold 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo. It's mostly empty.
Summary
President Donald Trump announced plans to use the Guantanamo Bay military base as a large detention center for 30,000 migrants facing deportation. However, over a year later, the facility holds only a few detainees, with most of its 400-bed capacity and the $73 million budget going unused.Key Facts
- President Trump planned to turn Guantanamo Bay into a detention center for 30,000 migrants in early 2025.
- As of May 11, only six migrants, all from Haiti, were being held there.
- The base can hold about 400 detainees, but fewer than 2% of these beds were occupied.
- Over the past year, 832 detainees arrived at Guantanamo on more than 100 flights.
- There are approximately 522 Department of Defense personnel and around 60 other government staff assigned to immigration operations at the base.
- The estimated cost for the military’s role in the operation is about $73 million, which is higher than earlier estimates.
- The U.S. government has shared limited information about this detention program.
- The effort to use Guantanamo for immigration detention began in February 2025 with migrants arrested inside the U.S.
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