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The Biden administration is weighing a plan to house migrants at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, according to NBC News.
The White House National Security Council asked the Department of Homeland Security for the number of Haitian migrants apprehended at sea which would require them to designate a third country for them to stay in while they await processing to enter the U.S., NBC reported, citing two U.S. officials and an internal document. If there is an overwhelming number of Haitian migrants for a third country, the Biden administration is considering Guantanamo Bay as a holding center.
Guantanamo is a high-security prison, where some of the harshest criminals have been held, including terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
The facility has also been used in the past to house migrants from Cuba and Haiti. The Biden administration is considering utilizing the base’s Migrant Operations Center and doubling its capacity to have 400 beds, according to NBC.
“The U.S. government always does contingency planning out of an abundance of caution, and for a wide range of potential scenarios. These contingencies for migration existed long before the Biden-Harris Administration,” an NSC spokesperson added after NBC published its story, adding that a decision hasn’t been made and the number of Haitian migrants interdicted at sea has decreased. --->READ MORE HERE
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Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., torched the Biden administration Monday for border policies that have resulted in over 2.3 million encounters and 856 migrant deaths in this fiscal year.
Waltz joined "The Faulkner Focus" to react to reports that the Biden administration may house Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Bay.
Waltz said the administration is completely absent when it comes to the southern border.
"I don't know what he's doing in Delaware every weekend, but this is crisis after crisis and they're just not taking it on. They just don't have a serious policy of American leadership and engagement right now in our own hemisphere."
According to the New York Post, the Biden administration is considering a plan to temporarily hold Haitian migrants in a third country or use an existing center at Guantanamo Bay.
The report cited officials who told NBC News that the National Security Council is in discussions with the Department of Homeland Security over how many migrants would need to be picked up at sea to allow the U.S. to designate a third country to house and process the individuals. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
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