Migrants Leave Guantanamo, Israeli Hostages Update, Changes at FEMA

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

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Nearly all migrants held at Guantánamo Bay have been released, with over 170 Venezuelans flown to their home country. Israeli authorities say a hostage body returned by Hamas is not who the militants claimed it to be. And the impact of job cuts at FEMA.

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0:00.0	Who is the United States sending to Guantanamo?
0:05.0	We have some idea now that the U.S. has sent migrants to that base and back out.
0:10.0	Our correspondent tells us what court filings reveal about some migrants removed from this country.
0:15.0	I'm Michelle Martin with Stevenskiy, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.4	Israeli authorities received four bodies yesterday from Hamas.
0:25.3	Israel says they do not know the identity of one of the bodies.
0:28.7	They also did not receive the body of a mother who was supposed to be delivered with her children.
0:32.8	How might Israel respond?
0:34.3	Here in the United States, the Trump administration laid off some FEMA workers and people
0:38.4	involved in the emergency management agency tell NPR it's backing off work on building codes to make
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1:31.6	We have a clearer picture this morning of how the Trump administration is using the U.S.
1:36.1	Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
1:38.0	The United States recently sent a group of migrants to the base.
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