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life. President Trump is right. Guantanamo Bay is a good place to put these illegal migrants. It's

much safer than an American base. It's a large base. I've been there. It has a very modest

American presence there.

Guantanamo is back, but of course it never actually went anywhere.

It's Thursday, February 6th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, how dismantling USAID affects farmers in Kansas.

Also, the mass deportations that President Trump promised have not

happened. But his words have sown fear and anxiety nonetheless. Many immigrants, with and without

legal status, are staying inside behind closed curtains, driving only to work and back. People are concerned that they might

get picked up in their homes or at their workplaces or if they're outside on the street and get

deported. Blue-collar workers in Wisconsin living in fear. That's coming up in a few minutes.

But first, America has detained many types of people at its military base in Guantanamo Bay in the southeastern tip of Cuba. In the early

90s, the George H.W. Bush administration held Haitian migrants in a makeshift detention camp there.

A decade later, the younger President Bush turned the base into a prison camp for people suspected of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Fifteen of those men are still held there, by the way. And now, they're getting company. The Trump

administration has sent 10 more people to Guantanamo Bay

that the Department of Homeland Security says are members of a Venezuelan gang called

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