The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Tuesday that foreign detainees from 26 countries are being held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, including many with criminal convictions.
The department shared the full list of nationalities of people being held at the base, as well as the identities and criminal histories of more than two dozen people, confirming reporting from CBS News last week that officials had sent detainees from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to the base, the network reported Tuesday.
The Guantanamo Bay base initially had been used to house mainly Spanish-speaking, Latin American migrants as they waited to be deported.
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