Public Health Workers Resign Before Going to Guantanamo

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Rebekah Stewart, a nurse with the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), received a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected to participate in the Trump administration’s new immigrant detention operation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That destination fulfilled two of Trump’s promises: his long-held desire to use the offshore base to remove “bad guys” from the United States and his commitment, made shortly after taking office last…