DHS seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo, guards who speak Haitian Creole

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-admin-seeks-contractor-run-migrant-detention-facility-gitmo-guards-n1279886

LOS ANGELES — As it scrambles to deal with the surge of Haitian migrants at the southern border, the Biden administration is seeking a private contractor to operate a migrant detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with a requirement that some of the guards speak Spanish and Haitian Creole, according to government records.

A little-known immigrant holding facility on the base has a capacity of 120 people, the records say, and it "will have an estimated daily population of 20 people," according to a solicitation for bids issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.

"The service provider shall be responsible to maintain on site the necessary equipment to erect temporary housing facilities for populations that exceed 120 and up to 400 migrants in a surge event," the contract solicitation says.

The records provided no indication that the Biden administration is planning to transfer migrants from the southern border to Guantánamo Bay. In the recent past, migrants picked up at sea have been housed there.

[Mr.Bill]

1. I was hoping they were saving that space for the Trump family/gang. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. No, the current administration is just asking around about incarcerating some of the most vulnerable

people right now, nbd.

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. The Biden administration is now running four flights a day to Port-au-Prince to expel migrants

without giving them a chance to seek asylum. It's doing so using a Trump-era rule. It's doing so after Biden campaigned:

https://joebiden.com/immigration/
The challenges we face will not be solved by a constitutionally dubious “national emergency” to build a wall, by separating families, or by denying asylum to people fleeing persecution and violence. Addressing the Trump-created humanitarian crisis at our border, bringing our nation together, reasserting our core values, and reforming our immigration system will require real leadership and real solutions. Biden is prepared on day one to deliver both. He will...Reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees.

[leftstreet]

5. Ah, tax dollars feeding private contractors

while asylum seekers are denied the right to petition for asylum

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Kick.

[eShirl]

7. Guantanamo Bay, why not Antarctica

what the &*(%&*