According to news reports, the Biden administration is considering housing Haitian migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The base—which is best known for housing al-Qaeda terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11—has been used as a migrant detention facility several times in the past.
As a policy matter, there are suboptimal options, bad options, and terrible options. But given the Biden administration’s blatant abuse of mass parole for Haitian migrants in the last three years, it would be imprudent to import Haitians to the 45-square-mile Navy base in southern Cuba as there is a strong likelihood that many, if not most, would end up in the United States.
A Terrible Situation—Again
We are not insensitive to the plight of innocent women, children, and men in Haiti, who have suffered under corrupt and incompetent…
