Making art served many purposes. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and author of Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo, wrote in his contribution to the book on al-Alwi that initially, “we painted what we missed: the beautiful blue sky, the sea, stars. We painted our fear, hope and dreams.”

President Trump’s efforts to remove certain immigrants from the United States appeared to ramp up Wednesday after he signed a memo to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo Bay to be used to house deported individuals.

Trump made the announcement before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.