Interview: Trump’s Mass Detention Plan for Guantánamo goes back to US detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers
The ambiguous sovereignty of Guantanamo "as a US military base was long utilized to incarcerate Caribbean asylum seekers to the US."
Existing racist anti-migration policies in the Caribbean (eg, Dominican Republic’s deportation of people with Haitian ancestry) suggest it will collaborate with Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/trump_guantanamo_bay_detention_camp