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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
President Trump plans to expand Guantanamo’s capacity to hold illegal immigrants, signing an order on Jan. 29 directing the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare the naval base ...
Here's what you need to know about Guantanamo Bay. What is Guantanamo Bay? Naval Station Guantanamo Bay has been used by the U.S. since 1898, when U.S. forces used the area in the Spanish-American ...
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base surrounds the southern portion of the bay. The U.S. Marines 1st, 2nd & 3rd Regiments at Deer Point Camp, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 26, 1911 The naval base, nicknamed "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 square kilometres (45 sq mi) on the western and eastern banks of the bay.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.
As the expiration of the US–Panamanian agreement permitting the Cubans to stay in Panama approached, planning began for Operation Safe Passage—the return of the Cubans to Guantanamo Bay Naval Facility. Between February 1, 1995, and February 20, 1995, 7,300 Cubans were transported from Panama to Guantanamo Naval Base.
Here's a look at the U.S. naval base and its history: How does the U.S. government use the base at Guantanamo Bay? While the U.S. naval base in Cuba is best-known for the suspects brought in after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it also has a separate facility used for decades to hold migrants.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The first U.S. military aircraft carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay is expected to depart on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump's ...