New Guantanamo Facility for Detained Immigrants

Univision Online, Posted: May 10, 2007

The Pentagon reports that construction began on a detention center for immigrants on the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to Spanish-language Univision Online. According to an Internet announcement, construction firm Island Mechanical Contractors, of Jacksonville, Fla., got the $16.5 million contract. The first report on the facility came out in February, when The Miami Herald announced that the government would fund a new facility in anticipation of intercepting massive numbers of migrants on the Caribbean Sea who were likely leaving Cuba. The U.S. Army Southern Command neither confirmed nor denied the report. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base currently houses hundreds of “enemy combatantsâ€