The Trump administration is now sending more arrested migrants to Guantanamo Bay, according to a Techdirt report. The facility has long been shorthand for disappearing people, a place where individuals effectively cease to exist and are cut off from the rights they would have inside the United States.
The report notes that Guantanamo's name is synonymous with torture and indefinite detention. By expanding its use for migrants, the administration is drawing on that history, reinforcing fears that detainees will face legal limbo. The article offers no indication of any change in the facility's status or conditions, only that the number of migrants sent there is increasing.