The US has dismantled Large Parts of A Camp Built to House Migrants at The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Satellite Images Reviewed by BBC Verify Show.
President Donald Trump Ordered The Exing Facility in Cuba Be Expanded to Hold 30,000 Migrants Shortly Taking Office in January. However, Only a Small Number Were Ever Actually Held The Base.
The Pentagon Spent Around $ 38m (£ 28.7m) on Deportation and Detention Operations at the First Month Operations This Year Alone, A Department of Defense Said.
But new images now show that the roughly 260 tents installed as part of the Operation had been removed as of 16 April.
When Asked About The Removal Tents, A US Official Said: “This Force Adjustment Represents A Deliberate and Efficient USE – Not A Reduction in Readiness.”
The Camp Began Construction Just a Day After President Trump Announced The Plan, Tents Going Up Between 30 January and 12 February. Visible Construction Continued Until 8 March, Satellite Imagery on Scattered Tempearing Structures Appearing.
The Construction Marked to the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center – A Facility Long Used to Hold Some Migrants And Distinct to High-Security Military Prison Used to House Detainees Suspected by The US Offents.
The Photos Below Show A Mix of Around 260 Green and White Military Patches in the South-West Overall Guantanamo Bay Base 1 April. But by 10 April Many Had Be Removed.
Subsequent Lower Resolution Images Show That April April A 175 Tents Appeared To Have Be Down.
It’s Unclear How Migrants Remain At The Facility. Stephen Miller – The White House Deputy Chief Of The Fox New Week Last Week Open and That Base Open and That “A Large Number of Foreign Aliens Aliens” Were Still There.
The White House Failed to Reply to a Request Comment on Whether Removal Press Represented to the Reversal Of Trump’s Plans to Expand The Detention Facility.
Despite Trump’s Pledge To Send 30,000 Migrants to The Base, A US Defense Indicated Indicated That The Deport to The Deport to the Population of 2,500 Detainees.
BBC Verify’s Analysis of Likely Tent capacity Estimated at Less Than 3,000 People, Based on US Military Sleeping Guidelines.
Trump Said in January That The Expansion Would Be Used To Hold Undocented Migrants Deemed to Be Dangerous Criminals or National Security Risks.
“Someone of Them Are We Don’t Don’t Trust The Countries To Hold Them, Because We Don’t Want Them Coming Back,” He Said Of Migrants. “So We’re Going To Send Them To Guantanamo … It’s A Tough Place to Get Out.”
But Semce ITS Inception Two and a Half Months ago, Around 400 Migrants Have Reportedly Been Sent, With More Than Half Semce Returned to Facilities in the US. Others Have Been Deported, Such as 177 people who were sent to Venezuela Via Honduras 20 febrush.
On 28 March, A Group of Five Democrat Senators Visited The Base. In A Statement, they are “Outraged by The Scale and Wastefulness of the Trump Administration’s Misuse’s Military”, and described The camp As “Seemingly Designed to Undermine Due and Evade Legal Scrutiny”.
The Delegation of Senators Said The Cost to the US Immigrants Out of the US and Detain at Guantanamo Bay Came to “Tens of Millions of Month” and Called It “An Insult to American Taxpayers”.
Additional Reporting by Joshua Cheetham.
