PRODUCER'S NOTE: Since this episode was recorded, "a US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed that 177 migrants had been deported from the Guantánamo Bay detention site. The move on Thursday came days after human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking access to dozens of people who had been held at the US naval base ... they are set to be transferred on to Venezuela, apparently emptying the military facility of migrant detainees." SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/deportation-venezuelans-guantanamo-bay-honduras

On today’s episode, Andy Stumpf and Borderland host Vince Vargas discuss the new executive order expanding a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay, what people get wrong about asylum policy, deportations, and more.

You can watch Tom Homan and Sen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's exchange discussed in the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW86at7EgD4

ORIGINAL SOURCES:

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/nonviolent-low-risk-migrants-guantanamo-bay/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guantanamo-bay-migrants-trump/

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