Trump's Guantanamo plan invokes 'war on terror' to justify inhumane immigration policies The US president's executive order weaponises the post-9/11 'terrorism' framework to detain migrants at the notorious prison camp, long used to hold those cast as existential threats

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum... New column by Maha Hilal about why Trump is sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay Prison.

U.S. Is Holding Migrants in Cells That Once Held Al Qaeda Suspects The Trump administration said the 10 men who were sent to a prison on the base at Guantánamo Bay are affiliated with gangs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u... We remember. It was wrong to imprison Muslim men whom the US military purchased for bounties, then held for decades as if they were guilty--without ever charging them. And the extrajudicial transfer to the prison of immigrants without charge or trial is also wrong.