President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday approving the use of the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the detention of as many as 30,000 immigrants. The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.
There is joy among families of those freed, but also concern that the deal may not last for long.
The move was part of a sweeping executive order signed by Trump on Monday night that rescinds 78 executive actions taken by Biden over the course of his presidency.
Fifty years ago today, the Puerto Rican separatist group, the FALN, bombed Manhattan's historic Fraunces Tavern, but no one has ever been charged in the attack.
Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen sanctions on the communist-run island, while Havana would release more than 500 people from its jails who are considered political prisoners by Washington.
Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee's ranking member, introduced the bill after Joe Biden in his last week as president said the U.S. was removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism after Cuba agreed to free a number of political prisoners.
Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by
More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration may have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that became public Friday.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will send as many as 30,000 immigrants who are living in the United States illegally to the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. “Today, I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will sign an executive action ordering the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.
President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of