The701
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Oh wait. "Detention center." Please pardon my typo in the title...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-karoline-leavitt-federal-freeze-live-updates-2022760#live-blog-44657
Or a CBS link, since Newsweek's not all that great.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-guantanamo-bay-for-criminal-migrants/
Calicious
The place has fewer than 700 cells. This is going to be barbaric. It will be a legitimate concentration camp
trippingthelightfantastic
friendsofsandwiches
jesus christ...yeah, this is first step. It's gonna get worse. WAY fucking worse.
woozle
WowThatUsernameIsSoOriginal
relax it's only a temporary transit camp... https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/the-holocaust/the-camps/transit-camps/
FirstInLastOut
How much is that going to cost?
The701
"Not immediately clear" is the only info I can find on cost. Translation: They don't care about the cost, and it'll surely make some excessively-wealthy people even wealthier.
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
"Sir, we have shipped the Migrants back to their country of origin. What do you want us to do with the 30,00 cells?"
"Well, I have always hated Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Dems... so lets do them next."
The701
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/
"...signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests."
Anyone on his enemies-list: "Deport, to...somewhere."
woozle
how do you say "arbeit macht frei" in Spanish?
Kyzyl
El trabajo libera.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei according to the spanish language wikipedia
woozle
thanks!
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
So, now the new sign at Guantanamo is "Arbeit macht frei"
StunttheRunt
Called it (unfortunately)
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MathiasTolerain
Does gitmo even have the capacity to hold 30k?
The701
If you count "a field surrounded by a mountain of razor wire" to be "holding," then... yeah they can do that pretty quickly.
wandermanspacebot
They'll gitmo facilities if they need to.