In the 1990s, the U.S. held thousands of Cubans and Haitians at Guantánamo Bay after being intercepted at sea on their way to the U.S. In recent years, fewer than 100 people have been held there.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Guantanamo Bay will be used to hold people who can’t be sent back to their home countries. Here’s what to know about the U.S. base in Cuba.

As President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, he announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center inside of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold tens of thousands of ...

A short film about 1990s Haitian refugees in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay aims to engage younger Haitian Americans with their ...

President Donald Trump plans for a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to hold the "worst criminal illegal aliens.". In a presidential memorandum signed on Wednesday, Trump said the ...

The first flight carrying "high-threat" migrants to Guantanamo Bay arrived Tuesday evening, part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.. The C-17 plane took off from El ...

As President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, he announced that he is directing the opening of a detention center inside of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold tens of thousands of ...

Venezuelan migrants flown from Guantanamo Bay via Honduras, walk after arriving on a deportation flight at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, Feb. 20, 2025.

Troops began deploying to Guantanamo Bay in early February to set up migrant detention facilities. President Donald Trump said the base has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000 migrants.

People held in Guantánamo Bay did not have access to lawyers to help them apply for asylum, Yale Law professor Harold Koh told PBS News in 2017. Koh sued the U.S. government over its treatment of ...