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.

A plane-load of deported migrants lands at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the first step of an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the U.S. Navy base there.

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,