January 2024 marks not only the anniversary of the camp, but also invites us to consider the never-ending War on Terror that created and legitimized the camp, as well as the long histories that brought us this bleak occasion of our convening. This talk will discuss two historical threads entwined at Guantanamo—U.S. imperial and U.S. imprisonment regimes. It will examine Guantanamo’s prior deployment as a migrant detention camp and the questions of economic and military imperialism and of border regimes it raises. It will also discuss how Guantanamo as a strategy has spread far beyond its geographic boundaries to other sites across the globe. If we are to meet again to mark the final closing of the Guantanamo camp, which still imprisons dozens of men today, then we must work to abolish the carceral, border, and imperial regimes on which it stands.