Cruelty and staggering financial costs: why expanding Guantánamo is a grave mistake | Karen J Greenberg and Mike Lehnert

The detention facility is a worldwide symbol of American hypocrisy. It's majorly expanding again

Nine days into the country's 47th presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive memorandum that contained his latest mass deportation plan. The three-paragraph, 148-word order called for a migrant facility located at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be expanded to full capacity". The US president later said the camp would house 30,000 migrants.

Troop deployments quickly followed and on 4 February, the first planes carrying a few dozen migrants arrived at Guantanamo, with officials sending more each day.