Guantanamo Bay Scandal

Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers' Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army

The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops -- taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members.

Stars and Stripes · 23h

Army used majority of soldiers’ food funds on other expenses, report says

The Army spent nearly 70% of the money it collected from enlisted troops’ food allowances on expenses other than meals, even as it struggles to provide them with a nutritious diet, according to a recent report.

Alternet on MSN · 1d

'Stealing food money from our soldiers': Troops going hungry as food budgets spent elsewhere

Millions of dollars meant to go toward feeding soldiers at U.S. Army bases are instead being redirected elsewhere, and it's unclear where those funds are going. Military.com recently reported that more than $151 million out of $225 million in money contributed directly from service members' paychecks for food on bases — also known as a Basic

The Nation on MSN1d

Trump’s Guantánamo Plan Will Be a Costly, Morally Bankrupt Fiasco

The US government has begun to shuttle immigrants from the United States to Gitmo, post photos of them in shackles, and lock ...

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‘Nobody really knows what’s going on’: US officials scramble to expand Guantanamo Bay for migrants

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are racing to set up multiple tent facilities in ...

USA Today6d

Their loved ones may have been sent to Guantanamo. Now they're suing.

At least seven military flights carrying an undisclosed number of detainees have left El Paso's Fort Bliss for Guantanamo Bay, according to social media posts by the Department of Defense U.S ...

The Washington Post2d

Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’

When the first flight of migrants arrived at Guantánamo Bay, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said they were “the worst of the worst.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called them ...

Los Angeles Times4d

Opinion: Sending immigrants to Gitmo will be a fiasco for Trump and everyone else

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the Trump administration has started sending people it describes as criminal ...

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US deports immigrants to Venezuela after judge blocked transfer to Guantanamo Bay

Three immigrants who won a restraining order against the U.S. government to avoid transfer to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in ...

CBS News6d

Advocates ask court to give migrant detainees at Guantanamo access to lawyers

Complying with an order from President Trump late last month, U.S. officials have been transporting dozens of unauthorized migrants to the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using military ...

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Court Blocks Donald Trump Sending Migrants to Guantanamo Bay

In a memorandum late last month, President Donald Trump announced plans to detain up to 30,000 immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally at Guantánamo Bay as part of his immigration ...

Politifact9d

US has held migrants at Guantánamo Bay before, but Trump’s approach is different

In the 1990s, the U.S. held thousands of Cubans and Haitians at Guantánamo Bay after being intercepted at sea on their way to the U.S. In recent years, fewer than 100 people have been held there.

Scripps News on MSN6d

ACLU and other rights groups sue for access to migrants detained at Guantánamo Bay

The American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups have sued the federal government for access to immigrants ...

Fox News4d

Trump performs jiujitsu flip on judge’s order, sends Guantánamo rejects back to Venezuela

The Trump administration sent three illegal immigrants back to their home country of Venezuela in response to a judge's decision blocking them from being sent to Guantánamo Bay as part of a ...

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