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Here's some background on Guantanamo from a piece on US border policy that I wrote for @nybooks.com in 2019 during the first Trump administration. "Some Suburb of Hell: America's New Concentration Camp System." (www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...)
"Detention at Guantanamo began in the 1990s, when Haitian and Cuban immigrants whom the government wanted to keep out of the United States were housed there in waves over a four-year period--years before the "war on terror" and the US policy of rendition of suspected "enemy combatants" made Camps Delta, X-Ray, and Echo notorious. Tens of thousands of Haitians fleeing instability at home were picked up at sea and diverted to the Cuban base, to limit their legal right to apply for asylum. The court cases and battles over the suffering of those detainees ended up setting the stage for what Guantanamo would become after 9/11. In one case, a federal court ruled that it did have jurisdiction over the base, but the government agreed to release the Haitians who were part of the lawsuit in exchange for keeping that ruling off the books. A ruling in a second case would assert that the courts did not have jurisdiction. Absent the prior case, the latter stood on its own as precedent. Leaving Guantanamo in this gray area made it an ideal site for extrajudicial detention and torture after the twin towers fell.
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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About like so. Mellow bison in the brush, clear trails, and frozen ground. It was about 16 degrees F when I started the run.
January 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM