In 1992, three hundred innocent men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum as Haitian refugees... were forced into the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay as prisoners. The argument for it was the prevalence of AIDs among the refugees, and the fear the US had of accepting the infected. Despite this, inadequate medical care was offered the detainees.

Both HW and Clinton argued that not only was this legal, but as non-citizens off of American soil (the base was leased from Cuba rather than part of America proper), they weren't entitled to constitutional protections, and that the executive orders that imprisoned them there were proper.

This precedent was not only allowed to stand, but laid the groundwork for W Bush, and is continuing to lay the groundwork for further abuses by the US government. It remains largely a legal limbo, a purgatory run by a military with little to restrain them.

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Either the law needs to change, or we as a nation need to burn that place to the goddamn ground.