Topic: Migrant Complex Planned For Gitmo

USA Today
May 9, 2007
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The United States, which has been planning for a possible influx of fleeing Cubans when Fidel Castro dies, has hired a Florida company to build a temporary complex to hold migrants at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military said. Islands Mechanical Contractors of Jacksonville won the $16.5 million contract to build a fenced "migrant operations complex" that would include showers and laundry facilities.
It is to be finished by May 2008, according to a Defense Department publication that announces contracts. The announcement did not specify the capacity of the complex.
Bob Turnage, the president of Islands Mechanical, declined to discuss the project.
The United States used its base at Guantanamo to house thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants in the 1990s. Since the terrorist attacks on the USA in September 2001, Guantanamo has housed detainees in the war on terrorism.