The use of Guantánamo Bay for migrant detention is neither a last resort nor a necessity but rather a costly and ineffective policy choice, the Niskanen Center argues.

The Trump administration has brought the detention facility back into the limelight by transporting migrants to the remote outpost aboard U.S. military aircraft. Over the past week, seven military flights have transferred at least 112 illegal migrants to the base, with plans to expand capacity significantly.

"He was running from the very gang they are accusing him of being in," said the family of a man transferred to the federal detention at Guantanamo Bay.

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office. "I worked in the army hospital on Ft. Lewis. A woman came in for belly pain,

The men had won a restraining order against the federal government but were put on a direct flight to Venezuela