After clearing security, visitors are allowed to board a ferry to the Windward base across the bay, where they are allowed to enter the prison camps after a series of checks.
In , Cuba leased this bay on its southeastern end to the US to be used as a naval coaling station. In , it became a US enclave after a perpetual lease was signed. What is not guarded by the sea is guarded by steep hills on the Cuban side.
Today, even if someone managed to evade the motion and sound sensors on the US side, he would run into mines on the Cuban side. Not to forget the Cactus Curtain, the 13 kilometer-long 8 mi paddle-cactus fence planted by Cuba.
Gitmo was divided into four prison camps for different types of captives. Camp Iguana, which once held juveniles as young as 12, also housed three Chinese prisoners. Most of the detainees in Gitmo were held in Camps five and six. Camps seven and 15 house high-value detainees.
Many detainees are unaware that they are so close to the coast. They were flown in blindfolded, and are taken out only for medical care or to meet with their lawyers. Before they exit and enter the camp, they were subjected to a humiliating search. At Camp six, Nazakat saw three prisoners — two were seated and quiet, and the third, a man in his 50s with a long beard, was wandering around and chanting loudly.
The poem, which appeared under the pen name Al-Rubaish, was withdrawn later. With the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, civil rights groups have been urging Biden to fulfill his pledge to close the prison. But he failed to keep his promise after the US Congress in imposed restrictions on the transfer of detainees. The Bush administration had transferred about detainees out of Guantanamo by the end of , and the Obama administration transferred nearly out of the facility by the beginning of In , five Taliban prisoners were transferred to Qatar.
In February, the US announced that it was conducting an internal review of how to close Guantanamo. The base is a hotly debated issue between the US and Cuba. According to the US military, all remaining detainees are in camps five and six. Since January 11, , at least detainees from 48 countries have been held in Guantanamo Bay. Only 16 were ever charged with criminal offences, according to Human Rights Watch.
The youngest detainee was year-old Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen who was released in after 13 years locked away. In , the Canadian government paid Khadr a The oldest prisoner still being held is year-old Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani national who has spent the last 17 years in detention without charge.
Paracha could be returned home in the next several months according to his lawyer. Since , Guantanamo detainees have been sent home or to other countries through prisoner transfer agreements. There are 39 still held.
Nine died in custody. Immigrants' advocates said at the time that the policy was driven in part by the fact that some of the Haitians were HIV-positive. In recent years, successive administrations have spent millions of dollars on infrastructure at the DHS facility, building cement pads for tents and buildings with crude latrines.
President Donald Trump talked about sending migrants there, but he never did, according to a book by an author later identified as Miles Taylor, a former DHS official. The new DHS contract solicitation says that the winning bidder would have to supply tents and cots and that "the contractor must be able to have these assembled and ready with little notice," adding, "In addition, the service provider must maintain a roster of at least 50 individuals who meet the minimum requirements of the unarmed custody officer job classification and have a viable contingency plan to deploy these individuals within 24 hours of notification.
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