Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration was keeping its promise to target criminal illegal immigrants and remove them from the country.
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Remember early in the GWB administration? VP Cheney characterized the ~750 Guantanamo Bay prisoners as "the worst of the worst".
What the GWB administration eventually realized was that the majority of these ~750 were nothing of the kind. And incarcerating each of them in Cuba cost about $Ten times as much as similar incarceration in the lower 48.
The cost per prisoner at that time, reportedly over one million dollars each, for cab drivers, goat herders, etc.
Over the decades successive administrations Republican & Democrat alike have helped trim this population down, from ~750, to:
As of January 6, 2025, 15 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay.