Overview
- Federal records list six Haitian detainees as of Monday, May 11, with fewer than 2% of the site’s 398 beds in use.
- The Pentagon told Congress it has 522 military personnel on the mission and expects $73 million in costs, with about 62 ICE and other staff also assigned.
- Internal documents show 832 people were flown to the base on 109 flights over the past year, even as capacity falls far short of the 30,000 beds the president pledged.
- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in December that the operation appeared impermissibly punitive and likely unlawful but did not halt it.
- DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis said Wednesday that people who enter the U.S. illegally could be sent to Guantanamo, to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, or to a third country.