NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents
The preparations include medical screenings for 9,000 people to determine if they are healthy enough to be sent to the controversial base in the Caribbean. DHS intends to minimize the amount of time detainees are in Gitmo but the WH could decide to use it for longterm detention
The Trump admin says the plan is necessary due to a need to free up capacity at domestic detention facilities which have been flooded with new detainees. A US doc says “GTMO is not at capacity" (tho it has been plagued by capacity issues in the past).
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