The Trump administration on Tuesday started flying immigrants who entered the nation illegally to Guantánamo Bay amid plans to make use of the ability in Cuba to detain 1000’s of migrants.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the primary flights from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay carrying migrant missing everlasting authorized standing have been underway.
“President Trump is not messing around, and he’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world,” Leavitt stated on Fox Enterprise Community.
Trump final week signed a memo directing the Division of Protection and Division of Homeland Safety to organize a 30,000-person migrant at Guantánamo Bay, a facility in Cuba that has been used to deal with navy prisoners, together with a number of concerned within the 9/11 assaults.
Guantánamo Bay is finest often called a navy base the place terror suspects are held. It grew to become notorious for accusations of torture and abuse because the U.S. carried out the warfare on terrorism. The Biden administration sought to wind down operations on the facility. There are 15 detainees nonetheless there.
“Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantánamo Bay will be an asset to us,” Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Noem wouldn’t say whether or not ladies and kids could be saved at Guantánamo Bay.
The Trump administration has aggressively moved to take away people who entered the U.S. illegally, organising agreements with Colombia, Venezuela and El Salvador for these nations to simply accept deported immigrants.
