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by eesmith 500 days ago
When it was a refugee camp during the Haitian refugee crisis starting in 1991, it held 12,500 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_refugee_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Cuban_rafter_crisis says during 1994 Cuban rafter crisis 'Around 20,000 rafters would be detained at the base.' but it does not say how many were held at the same time.