Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo
Donald Trump
KFF Health News Feb 9 2026 Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. 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 last year to hold thousands of noncitizens there. The
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