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November 2, 2022

Biden Admin Weighing Sending Haitian Asylum Seekers to Guantánamo Bay
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NBC News is reporting the Biden administration is considering expanding
operations at the U.S. military base and prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
to hold Haitians who are caught at sea trying to reach the United
States. This comes as Haiti is facing a growing political and
humanitarian crisis. In the 1990s, the United States used Guantánamo to
hold as many as 12,000 Haitians who fled the country following the
U.S.-backed 1991 coup.


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