U.S. Preparing Guantanamo Bay for Haitian Refugees

[rodbarnett]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is preparing a detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to house tens of thousands of refugees who may flee unrest in Haiti, officials in humanitarian organizations said on Wednesday.

One official said the State Department had briefed a number of non-governmental organizations on its plans to accommodate as many as 50,000 refugees in the detention facility until they could be sent back to Haiti.

The facility would not be in the same place as the prison camp being operated by the U.S. military for detainees captured in Afghanistan and being treated as enemy combatants in the "war on terrorism."

"The State Department told us they were getting slots ready for as many as 50,000 at Guantanamo and they would like humanitarian organizations to be involved in caring for these people," said one official, who asked not to be named.

Another source, confirming this, said the humanitarian organizations were considering their response to the request to be involved in running the camp.

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[pnorman]

1. Sounds like they're trying to put a 'humanitarian' spin

on that Guantanamo Gulag.

pnorman
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[DuctapeFatwa]

2. The pilot program at Guantanamo has been very well received

Initial concerns over the possibility of domestic objections have proven to be unfounded. The program is quite popular with the US voting class, which bodes well for its continued expansion.

[Bandit]

3. Cubans automatically get to stay in America ~ White ones anyway

But Haitians automatically get sent out of country or back to Haiti. They are Black. Imagine that.