Guantanamo’s other history

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

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The Trump administration has begun detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay. For more than 40 years, the US has sent immigrants to Gitmo, explains Jeffrey Kahn of UC Davis, who interviewed asylum-seekers there. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members A 1992 image of a refugee camp at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay where Haitians were detained. Photo by © Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	President Trump promised to send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay, and his administration is now doing it.
0:08.9	Here's Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, on CNN this weekend, after making a trip herself to Gitmo.
0:15.3	These individuals are the worst of the worst that we pulled off of our streets.
0:18.4	Who are there?
0:19.0	Murderers, rapists.
0:20.3	When I was there, I was able to watch one of the flights landing and them unload about 15 different
0:24.6	of these criminals.
0:25.6	Those were mainly child pedophiles, those that were out there trafficking children,
0:30.6	trafficking drugs, and were pulled off of our streets.
0:33.6	Now it's impossible to fact-check that statement at the moment because the government
0:36.6	hasn't released the names of four dozen or so men who've been sent there so far.
0:41.8	Coming up on today, explained what we do know about Trump's big moves on immigration. Support for the show comes from Pilot.
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