Tents at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in support of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security mission to expand the Illegal Alien Holding Operations Center during Operation Southern Guard at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Feb. 17. Some “essential” personnel remain in the area without running water, so water trucks are being transported there by ferry, according to the government. What is it like to cover Guantanamo Bay? Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week’s Reporter’s Notebook. According to those documents, the average length of stay for migrants sent to Guantánamo is 14 days.