MSBC - Transporting tens of thousands of people from the
U.S. mainland and detaining them at Guantánamo makes no sense
financially. The U.S. government will need to construct a massive site
for detention — along with medical facilities, food and sanitation
services, staffing and security on a remote island with limited, aging
infrastructure — with a likely, albeit as yet unknown, cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Defense officials were reportedly shocked by Trump’s order. The island’s existing Migrant Operations Center was designed for people picked up in boats by the Coast Guard — not tens of thousands of longtime U.S. residents, including children. NBC News is reporting that already tent camps are being built to house some of these new detainees, while there are also plans to detain immigrants at the high-security prison built after 9/11.
This expensive project will continue to drain American coffers for years, even decades, especially if Guantánamo becomes a detention site for people who have been ordered deported but whose home countries do not accept deportations.
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