Trump administration expands use of Guantanamo Bay to detain migrants from 6 continents 03:35. The Trump administration is using the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to detain dozens of ...

The Trump administration recently transferred immigration detainees from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean to detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

During the peak of the war on terror, the U.S. held 780 people at the Guantanamo Bay facility. Pentagon officials were shocked by Trump’s order in January to house some 30,000 people there.

The U.S. military announced Wednesday it has transferred the first detainee out of Guantanamo Bay prison during the Trump administration.. Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty to ...

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.

President Donald Trump is planning to deport up to 9,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay beginning Wednesday, a 1,700 percent increase from the number held in the military prison over the last few months.

The U.S. government has spent roughly $40 million in just six weeks to detain fewer than 400 migrants at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, according to estimates shared by anonymous ...

Trump made the surprise declaration during the signing of the Laken Riley Act at the White House on Jan. 29 to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay, which was used to detain suspected ...

The southwestern border mission and the detention operations at Guantanamo Bay have cost close to $330 million through mid-March, according to a U.S. official.

The three-month-old operation never expanded to fulfill President Trump’s vision of housing 30,000 at the offshore U.S. base. By Carol Rosenberg Reporting from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba The Trump ...