AOC Slams ‘Shameful’ Proposal to House Migrants at Guantanamo
The administration is advertising for contractors to run the facility, which has not been used since 2017. Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez immediately denounced the idea as "utterly shameful."
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In the wake of a surge of roughly 14,000 Haitian migrants and asylum seekers on the southern border, the Biden administration is preparing to reopen a migrant detention camp on Guantánamo Bay and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) bureau is inviting tenders for private contractors to run the Migrant Operations Center there and provide unarmed custody and security officers, reports The Guardian.
The idea was quickly slammed by progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “utterly shameful,” reported the Independent. The advertised “contract opportunity’’ called for temporary housing facilities for populations “that exceed 120 and up to 400 migrants in a surge event.” The contractor would have to assemble tents and cots for a surge of migrant detainees at short notice. The camp, which was once used to detain about 34,000 Haitians and roughly the same number of Cubans until it was wound down by the Obama administration, has not been used to hold migrants since 2017. See also: Amid Aggressive Enforcement, Haitian Migrants Still Released in US.
