Guantánamo Migrant Operation Has Held Fewer Than 500 Detainees, and None in Tents

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : A total of 497 migrants have been held there for just days or weeks, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses the base as a way station to hold small numbers of detainees designated for deportation.
52% : The judge, Brian E. Murphy of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, has ordered the government to disclose certain information about the flights to lawyers advocating legal protections for immigrants.
46% : Over the weekend, the task force in charge of migrant detention at Guantánamo Bay was holding 32 migrants awaiting deportation and had about 725 staff members, mostly uniformed Army and Marine forces, with 100 employed by ICE as security officers or contractors.
45% : Instead, the Homeland Security and Defense Departments have reached an agreement to house dozens, not thousands, of ICE detainees at the base on any given day.
43% : American military forces have taken down some of the tents they hurriedly set up on an empty corner of the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three months after President Trump ordered preparations to house up to 30,000 migrants at the base.
41% : On that day, 42 other migrants of unknown nationalities were being held at Guantánamo, according to people familiar with the transfer who were not authorized by ICE to discuss it.
38% : "While no one disagrees that violent criminals should be deported, this mission is operating under questionable legal authority, undermines due process and is unsustainably expensive -- wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money," the senators wrote.
35% : In a letter on Friday, Senators Gary Peters of Michigan and Alex Padilla of California asked Mr. Trump to order a review of the operation by the Department of Government Efficiency for fraud, waste or misconduct.
34% : The current agreement defines those eligible for detention at Guantánamo as "illegal aliens with a nexus to a transnational criminal organization or criminal drug activity."

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