The first U.S. military flight carrying detained migrants to Guantánamo Bay departed on Tuesday. Here's what to know about the base and its history.

As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to the facility,

The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay has landed in Cuba.