Guantanamo's Empty Promise: A Symbol of Trump's Failed Immigration Agenda The images of Guantanamo Bay's detention facilities are forever seared into our collective consciousness – a prison built on a military base in Cuba, infamous for its alleged human rights abuses and torture.
The US government has long touted the facility as a necessary evil, a place to hold those deemed too severe a threat to society to be detained in domestic prisons.
Under President Donald Trump's watch, Guantanamo Bay was supposed to become something more – a mass detention center for migrants and asylum seekers, capable of holding 30,000 individuals.