"Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the US Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration's new immigration detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This posting combined Donald Trump's longtime passion to use the offshore base to move "some bad dudes" out of the United States with a promise made shortly after his inauguration to hold thousands of noncitizens there."
"Other public health officers, who worked at Guantánamo in the past year, described conditions there for the detainees, some of whom first learned they were in Cuba from the nurses and doctors sent to care for them. They treated immigrants detained in a dark prison called Camp 6, where no sunlight filters in, said the officers who have been granted anonymity because they fear retaliation for speaking publicly."
Doctors, nurses, and other Public Health Service officers are increasingly deployed to immigration detention centers and to a new detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A Public Health Service nurse was selected for deployment to Guantánamo and pleaded successfully to be replaced after an emotional reaction. Some officers treated detainees in Camp 6, a dark facility where no sunlight filters in, and some detainees first learned they were in Cuba from medical staff. Officers reported they were not briefed on potential duties and spoke anonymously because they feared retaliation. The uniformed Public Health Service includes roughly 5,000 clinicians who deploy for disasters and fill agency gaps.
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