Edwidge Danticat writes in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker about the abysmal experiences of the Haitian refugees and asylum seekers endured when they were imprisoned at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the 1990s.
On Jan 29, President Donald Trump ordered the expansion of the Migrant Operations Center at Guantánamo into a 30,000-bed detention center for what he called the “worst criminal aliens.”
Danticat, the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities and a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, interviewed eyewitnesses of the horror for the piece, “The Fate of Migrants Detained at Guantánamo.” Danticat has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1999.
The story is accompanied by a series of images captured by photojournalists who visited the naval base at the time.
Danticat writes that, “Their work … now seems like a preview of what’s to come.”
