Sasha Pfeiffer

So the military has also circulated photos of service members putting up green army tents to help with what it's calling a migrant operations center expansion. And the defense secretary says migrants will be held at Guantanamo only temporarily until the U.S. finds other countries to take them.

So the military has also circulated photos of service members putting up green army tents to help with what it's calling a migrant operations center expansion. And the defense secretary says migrants will be held at Guantanamo only temporarily until the U.S. finds other countries to take them.

I've gotten conflicting answers from lawyers. Some say yes, some say no. One who thinks it is not legal is a lawyer at UCLA named Ahilan Arulanatham. He says U.S. immigration law dictates where these migrants can be sent. And if Cuba has presumably not agreed to take them, he says it's an illegal deportation. But Steve Vladek at Georgetown Law School thinks it's legal.

I've gotten conflicting answers from lawyers. Some say yes, some say no. One who thinks it is not legal is a lawyer at UCLA named Ahilan Arulanatham. He says U.S. immigration law dictates where these migrants can be sent. And if Cuba has presumably not agreed to take them, he says it's an illegal deportation. But Steve Vladek at Georgetown Law School thinks it's legal.

I've gotten conflicting answers from lawyers. Some say yes, some say no. One who thinks it is not legal is a lawyer at UCLA named Ahilan Arulanatham. He says U.S. immigration law dictates where these migrants can be sent. And if Cuba has presumably not agreed to take them, he says it's an illegal deportation. But Steve Vladek at Georgetown Law School thinks it's legal.

He argues a deportation is not official until the U.S. has relinquished custody of the migrants And that won't happen until they're moved to another country after being at Guantanamo. But you know that they disagree, suggest we're in murky legal territory. Vladek also thinks the Trump administration is sending migrants there as a kind of macho performance art. Here's Steve Vladek.

He argues a deportation is not official until the U.S. has relinquished custody of the migrants And that won't happen until they're moved to another country after being at Guantanamo. But you know that they disagree, suggest we're in murky legal territory. Vladek also thinks the Trump administration is sending migrants there as a kind of macho performance art. Here's Steve Vladek.

He argues a deportation is not official until the U.S. has relinquished custody of the migrants And that won't happen until they're moved to another country after being at Guantanamo. But you know that they disagree, suggest we're in murky legal territory. Vladek also thinks the Trump administration is sending migrants there as a kind of macho performance art. Here's Steve Vladek.

You know, he points out it'd be cheaper and easier to hold them somewhere in some big open space elsewhere in the U.S. But by shipping them to Guantanamo, you send a certain message. Here's how the editor of the website Lawfare, Ben Wittes, put it.

You know, he points out it'd be cheaper and easier to hold them somewhere in some big open space elsewhere in the U.S. But by shipping them to Guantanamo, you send a certain message. Here's how the editor of the website Lawfare, Ben Wittes, put it.

You know, he points out it'd be cheaper and easier to hold them somewhere in some big open space elsewhere in the U.S. But by shipping them to Guantanamo, you send a certain message. Here's how the editor of the website Lawfare, Ben Wittes, put it.

And by the way, all those people I interviewed are skeptical that 30,000 migrants will ever end up at Gitmo, given the legal questions plus financial, political, practical barriers. But even sending a handful is getting a ton of public attention, which is part of the point.

And by the way, all those people I interviewed are skeptical that 30,000 migrants will ever end up at Gitmo, given the legal questions plus financial, political, practical barriers. But even sending a handful is getting a ton of public attention, which is part of the point.

And by the way, all those people I interviewed are skeptical that 30,000 migrants will ever end up at Gitmo, given the legal questions plus financial, political, practical barriers. But even sending a handful is getting a ton of public attention, which is part of the point.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

We are not. The Trump administration is saying that migrants would not be in that U.S. military prison detention facility where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is held. They would instead be on the naval base portion of Guantanamo, which is a separate area. And for decades, the naval base has had a detention facility that houses migrants intercepted at sea. They're usually Haitian or Cuban or Dominican.

We are not. The Trump administration is saying that migrants would not be in that U.S. military prison detention facility where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is held. They would instead be on the naval base portion of Guantanamo, which is a separate area. And for decades, the naval base has had a detention facility that houses migrants intercepted at sea. They're usually Haitian or Cuban or Dominican.

We are not. The Trump administration is saying that migrants would not be in that U.S. military prison detention facility where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is held. They would instead be on the naval base portion of Guantanamo, which is a separate area. And for decades, the naval base has had a detention facility that houses migrants intercepted at sea. They're usually Haitian or Cuban or Dominican.