White House Spent $40 Million In First Month Housing Prisoners at Gitmo

President Donald Trump is spending $40 million per month to house about 300 migrants at facilities in US-occupied Cuba. Some of the detainees are being held at an infamous George W. Bush-era torture prison.

According to the New York Times, the Department of Defense spent $39.3 million in the project’s first month, housing around 300 migrants at its facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Additionally, the Defense and Homeland Security Departments report that about 1,000 employees are needed to hold the immigrants sent from the US to Cuba.

Five Senators toured the facilities last week, with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) arguing that sending the migrants to Gitmo was a waste of resources.

While some of the men are being held at an immigration facility in US-occupied Cuba, over 100 are detained at the military base, which includes the torture prison used to hold accused terrorists. Most of the migrants held at the US facilities in Cuba are Venezuelans.