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Biden administration transfers its first detainee from Guantánamo Bay

Biden administration transfers its first detainee from Guantánamo Bay

Jul 19, 2021 56 secs

The transfer comes after NBC News reported in June that President Joe Biden had quietly begun efforts to close the detention facility at the U.S.

Sources previously told NBC News that the administration hoped to transfer a handful of the remaining terrorism suspects to foreign countries and then persuade Congress to permit the transfer of the rest — including 9/11 suspects — to detention on the U.S.

Biden hopes to close the facility by the end of his first term, the people familiar with the discussions said.

During his campaign for president, Obama pledged to shutter the prison within a year of taking office and two days after being inaugurated signed an executive order to close the facility by the end of the year.

and the by the end of Obama's second term the detention facility remained open.

While in office, Trump signed an executive order keeping the facility open and one detainee was transferred to a foreign country during his term.

has to negotiate a transfer agreement with a foreign government for each detainee eligible for transfer, which can be difficult for detainees from destabilized countries like Yemen.

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