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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Biden Plans to Send Asylum Seekers to Guantanamo</h1>September 23, 2021</div>
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<p>In reaction to the
massive influx of asylum seekers at the U.S. border, President Joe Biden
seeks to prepare the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to receive
undocumented migrants.</p>
<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued an invitation to
tender for private contractors to manage the Migrant Operations
Center (MOC) located inside the U.S. base.</p>
<p>The contract
solicitation appeared on ‘Sam.gov’, a government contracting website, on
Sept. 16, with a deadline for offers of Oct. 1. It states that the
center currently has a capacity for 120 migrants. Due to the recent
increase in the arrival of undocumented migrants in the U.S, the
contractor is requested to expand the center's capacity to receive about
400 migrants.</p>
<p>"At least 10 percent
of the increased staff must be fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Transportation to and from the facility is the sole responsibility of
the service provider," the statement specifies.</p>
<p>This also fits in with the situation of Del Rio, Texas, where some
14,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, were crowded in an encampment under a
bridge after crossing illegally into the U.S.. Democratic representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commented that the Biden administration's plan
is "absolutely outrageous."</p>
<p>Similarly,
Congressman Chuy Garcia wrote: "This administration's treatment of
Haitian immigrants is going from bad to worse. Seeking asylum is not a
crime."</p>
<p>This U.S. military
installation in Cuban territory is known for being the site of a
controversial prison for detainees suspected of terrorism, many of them
victims of aberrant torture.</p>
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