The surge in troops is the latest move in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, including efforts to stop migrants from crossing the southern border and deportation of those enforcement officials said are in the U.

For decades, Guantanamo Bay has been a symbol of injustice, human rights violations, and the U.S.'s willingness to circumvent international law in its pursuit of control. While the facility is primarily associated with the detention of "terrorists" under the guise of national security,

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are racing to set up multiple tent facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house thousands of migrants, but the scattered efforts have prompted questions internally about who’s in charge and what will happen once people arrive on site.

US military officials say they are now holding about 68 people at the detention facility in Cuba, with more expected

A DHS official declined to say how many of those detainees committed crimes besides being the the U.S. illegally or had suspected ties to transnational gangs.

Human rights groups have sued to gain access to migrants held at the US military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, amid Trump's crackdown on immigration.