Biden admin. seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo, guards who speak Creole, according to government records.
A little-known immigrant holding facility on the base has a capacity of 120 people, the records say, and it"will have an estimated daily population of 20 people," according to a solicitation for bids issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.
Guantánamo Bay is best known these days as the site of a prison for high-value terrorism detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed 9/11 mastermind, who is on trial there before a military commission. But the base has long included a DHS immigration holding facility — one with a controversial past linked to Haiti.
"It's highly concerning that the administration may be considering using Guantánamo to detain Haitian asylum-seekers or others," said Wendy Young, president of the immigrant advocacy group Kids in Need of Defense."It's a sense of déjà vu all over again.
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