Guantanamo population isn't growing, and prison shows no signs of closing

Four years ago, President Trump pledged to “load up” the Guantanamo Bay detention facility with “bad dudes.” But in the ensuing years, the facility’s population has not grown. Indeed, the Trump administration recently celebrated bringing two of the most notorious alleged ISIS fighters to the United States for trial — the type of “bad dudes” Trump spoke about during the 2016 election. Meanwhile, the infamous detention center has all but disappeared from either party’s talk on the campaign trail as the facility nears 20 years of operations. ADVERTISEMENT “For the 40 men who are there, four more years of their lives have passed with no improvement,” said Daphne Eviator, Amnesty International...