The US could use the notorious Guantanamo Bay military facility in Cuba to process migrants fleeing the violence in Haiti, CNN has reported, citing an unnamed American official.
Washington is bracing for mass migration from the island nation, according to the news broadcaster. Haiti, which is just over 300km from the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, has seen mounting violence in recent months.
Its capital, Port-au-Prince, has been overrun by armed criminal gangs, leading to the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Tuesday.
he Guantanamo Bay facility is home to a US military prison for terror suspects that was opened by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. There have been numerous reports and testimonies of the abuse of prisoners, while Amnesty International has described the camp as “a symbol of torture, rendition and indefinite detention without charge or trial”.
The naval base also has a Migrant Operations Center that houses migrants picked up by the Coast Guard in the Caribbean. The facility is not part of the prison.
The administration of President Joe Biden is weighing up plans to extend the capacity of the migrant center in view of a possible migrant wave from Haiti, CNN has reported.
According to the broadcaster, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is monitoring the situation on the island. “Irregular migration flows” through the Caribbean currently remain low, a DHS spokesperson told CNN. The US returns or repatriates migrants interdicted at sea to the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, the spokesperson added.
The US has seen a surge in immigration rates, mainly from its southern border.
In December, more than 225,000 migrants attempted to cross the frontier from Mexico, the highest monthly total recorded since 2000, CNN noted.
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The entire country is a loss. Look for blame everywhere but the Haitians themselves. In our modern construct, any tragedy is always someone else's fault.
@DrearyWildfowlGreen2yrs2Y
France and Spain captured or purchased hundreds of thousands of Africans and shipped them to Haiti, with untold death and suffering along the way.
The folks who survived were forced for generations to work without pay, beaten, raped, starved, and killed on coffee and sugar plantations.
Billions of dollars of wealth in today's dollars were extracted directly from the labor of enslaved Haitians.
Haitians eventually managed to win freedom in a protracted revolt which decimated the island and destroyed most of the plantations which constituted the only real economy. Haiti was then paradoxically… Read more
If you look into the history of Haiti since the French pulled out, you’ll see the United States has been associated with numerous regime change operations. The current situation is obviously also related to the earthquake from a decade ago, but it was all made worse by American military and intelligence operations that destabilized the entire country. Many such cases.
@LivelyGarlicPatriot2yrs2Y
The US Navy under the Biden admin isn’t going to stop the mass migration of Haitians. They’re going to facilitate it and make the process more orderly by ferrying refugees from Haiti to Guantanamo for processing into the US.
@P4rtyCrowRepublican2yrs2Y
Only because the DC uniparty sanctions, encourages it.
When they gave the presidency to plugs- Biden, I knew the office was a puppet show.
Think we live under an oligarchy now... still hiding.
Still afraid of 2A... for now.
Haiti is a lost cause, and this move is unconstitutional.
@P4ndaBillForward2yrs2Y
They use the Army and Airforce bases on US soil to house them, feed them and transport them around the country.
@LionSarahTranshumanist2yrs2Y
At least there’s a plan. I was scared they were just going long to let them all arrive in Miami. I’m in So Florida. It’s so crowded here. Hopefully they’ll send them all to sanctuary cities, not here.
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