How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown NYT | Top Stories By: Carol Rosenberg 5 April 2025 at 07:24 In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation. © Doug Mills/The New York TimesThe U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.