Satellite imagery of Guantanamo Bay shows the rapid construction of structures as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to house migrants there.

On Feb. 7, he and other Venezuelan men in ICE detention in El Paso were awakened and told they were going back to Venezuela, Purroy Roldan said. They were transported to Miami and put aboard a military plane – and realized they were actually going to Guantanamo.

The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

A lack of transparency means that questions remain over even the exact number of people who’ve been incarcerated there.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have removed deported migrants from a facility on the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the Trump administration