The military transported about 15 immigration detainees from Texas to the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday, bringing in new migrants who have been designated for deportation days after it cleared the base of its first group of deportees.
No new migrants had been sent to the base since the Homeland Security Department cleared it of 178 Venezuelans on Thursday.
A brief announcement did not identify the nationalities of the newest arrivals. Nor did it give exact figures. But a government official said they were in the category of “high-threat illegal aliens,” and therefore were being held in Camp 6, a prison that until last month housed detainees in the war on terrorism.
Last week, the Trump administration delivered 177 Venezuelan men who had been designated for deportation from Guantánamo to the Venezuelan government on an airstrip in Honduras.
It is unclear why those men had to be taken to Guantánamo on 13 military flights from El Paso from Feb. 4 to Feb. 17, and then shuttled to an air base in Honduras on two chartered U.S. aircraft. On Feb. 10, Venezuela sent one of its commercial airliners to El Paso for 190 other Venezuelan citizens the United States wanted to deport.
Sunday’s transfer happened without advanced notice. The U.S. government declined a request last week from a consortium of U.S. civil liberties lawyers that asked for 72 hours’ notice before more people in homeland security custody were sent there.
Posted by John3262005
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Using the prison **at all** is an abomination.
What if Germany wanted to use Dachau to house hardened criminals? Even if the case against them was air tight, you **cannot** use that prison without the historical implications.
Make no mistake, this is intended to send a brutal message and I expect this criminal administration to try to execute on that message
The fact that we still incarcerate people on an offshore military base, effectively depriving people of their habeus corpus rights, is beyond criminal.
To be honest, as much as I despise Castro’s regime, I think Cuba should get the land back, no offence to Americans but your government has shown it cannot be trusted to not use Gitmo as a black site bereft of Human Rights.