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The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) refers to a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and is a United States facility within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba used to detain non-US citizens regarding immigration status.
Located on the southeastern coast of Cuba, Guantanamo occupies an odd historical position as a vestige of American imperialism: The U.S. seized the bay in 1898 during the Spanish-American War as ...
The naval base at Guantanamo Bay was leased by Cuba to the American government through the "Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations", signed by the President of Cuba and the President of the United States on 23 February 1903. The lease agreement from 1903 says in Article 2:
Executive Order 13492, titled Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities, is an Executive Order that was signed by United States President Barack Obama on 22 January 2009, ordering the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. [1]
FILE - In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the ...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency didn't respond to a request for comment on the men's request to not be sent to Guantanamo or if they even planned to send the three detainees to ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention center was established by the administration of George W. Bush at an American military base in Cuba in 2002. The establishment of the prison was aimed at depriving detainees of the post-9/11 “war on terror” of the constitutional rights they would enjoy on US soil. [6]