CNN is reporting that the US is detaining about 50 Cubans at Guantanamo Bay. It seems these individuals have, at various times, attempted to migrate to the US, but US authorities intercepted them at sea.
Ordinarily, US authorities would simply have repatriated these individuals to Cuba, under the US’s sensitively-named “wet foot-dry foot” policy. So what are they doing at Gitmo?
But after interviews aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutters it was determined that those migrants appeared to meet the standard of having a well-founded fear of persecution if repatriated and, therefore, were diverted to Guantanamo, the exile group [Democracy Movement] said.
The exile group said Cubans can be held at the base until the United States can find a third country that will take them.
Yup. They’ve been sent to Gitmo to protect them from persecution.
Your tax dollars at work.