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The Trump administration carried out its first direct deportation from Guantanamo Bay to Nicaragua this week — and other news about the offshore outpost in ICE detention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown
In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.
Despite four attempts by CCFW on January 29 and 30 to obtain payment of obligated grant funds through Defendants' Payment Management Services system ("PMS"), and another ten requests in the following four weeks, Defendants have persisted in unlawfully preventing CCFW from obtaining over $36 million under its open grant agreements— an amount owing that continues to mount with the services CCFW continues to provide, unfunded, with each passing day. As this Court is aware, CCFW has been far from alone in confronting Defendants' unlawful attempt to pause all federal grant funding. On February 25, 2025, the Honorable Judge Loren L. AliKhan of this Court ordered that the Administration was preliminarily "enjoined from implementing, giving effect to, or reinstating under a different name the unilateral, non-individualized directives in OMB Memorandum M-25-13 with respect to the disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards" and that agencies may not take any steps to implement the federal funding freeze as contemplated by OMB Memorandum M-25-13. National Council of Nonprofits v. OMB, Civil Action No. 25-239, Dkt. No. #52 (Feb. 25, 2025) (issuing a preliminary injunction to block the government's efforts to freeze federal funding). Defendants' unlawful behavior, in defiance of the Constitutional authority of Articles I and III co-equal branches of government, results in real-world harm not only to CCFW but also to the more than 100,000 individuals and families to whom CCFW and its partner agencies provide essential, Congressionally-mandated services. In CCFW's case, as CCFW wrote to ORR on February 17, "the lack of payments has resulted in 24 of our 29 partner agencies experiencing staff layoff or furloughs," resulting in the over 100,000 eligible individuals and families "losing access to critical services." Neither CCFW, nor its large network of contractors and sub-recipients, have the ability to 3 Case 1:25-cv-00605 Document 1 Filed 03/03/25 Page 4 of 28 cover the cash flow necessary to continue operating to serve Congress's intent without receiving the Congressionally-appropriated funding for those services. Thus, CCFW's partners have had to lay off staff, close offices, and cut certain supportive services programs as a result of the lack of payments, resulting in a frustration of CCFW's mission and Congressional mandate.
March 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social
Updated: There are now 17 immigration detainees at Guantanamo Bay, aged 23 to 62. They are from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador.
Eight of them were taken into ICE custody after President Trump took office.
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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February 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social
Catching up? The Trump administration emptied the Venezuelan migrants out of the “temporary” holding sites at Guantánamo yesterday. Nearly all of them were repatriated, via a handoff at a military airbase in Honduras. The 178th was brought back to U.S. detention. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo
A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
colleenkellyfnp.bsky.social
Super informative article when we know so little about what's happening to migrants at Guantanamo ... including - who are they?
carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · Feb 19
What we know about the secretive migrant mission at Guantanamo Bay: The migrants, the mission, the messaging and more.
--Many questions are being raised; and we can provide a few answers.
What We Know About the Secretive Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social
With Guantanamo prison back in the news, and so much we have yet to learn about the new administration's evolving migrant operation... I thought I'd re-up this article from the last administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...
Guantánamo Bay Explained: The Costs, the Captives and Why It’s Still Open
Just 15 men remain at the prison, down from hundreds when it opened 23 years ago. But the costly operation could go on for years.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
Arielle Kane was an analyst at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare.
Arielle Kane @ariellesophia •23m Hey! @elonmusk your doge minions just fired me and my colleagues at CMMI. We were working on improving maternal health outcomes AT LOWER COSTS so that less pregnant women would die in this county. I thought that would fit nicely into your agenda? 3 <> 116 • 340 Ill 15K 企 Arielle Kane @ariellesophia •21m The admin told media yesterday that the HHS cuts were "targeted" and didn't included scientists or people working on Medicare & Medicaid. Well I know of scientists who got fired and I work on Medicaid. Just wanted to point out when you get things wrong - like you requested.
February 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
colleenkellyfnp.bsky.social
Geez. What *didn't* they give him?
What a recipe..
How many different providers prescribed this panoply?
gitmowatch.bsky.social Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · Jan 23
Connell shows the long list of drugs administered to al Baluchi which would never be given to someone who wasn't suffering from serious trauma symptoms.
January 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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niaolainf.bsky.social
There should be no such thing as a “forever” prisoner: never tried, never charged w/ any crime in a democratic society. And when there is no imperative reason of security to detain, but the concealment of torture as the basis for detention - shame on democracy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Joe Biden under pressure to release ‘forever prisoner’ from Guantánamo Bay
UN experts call on US president in his final week in office to free Abu Zubaydah, who was detained 23 years ago in the aftermath of 9/11
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM