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 hundreds 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 had 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 mentioned on Fox Enterprise Community.
President Trump final week signed a memo directing the Division of Protection and Division of Homeland Safety to arrange a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay, a facility in Cuba that has been used to accommodate 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 turned notorious for accusations of torture and abuse because the U.S. carried out the conflict 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 mentioned Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Noem wouldn’t say whether or not ladies and youngsters can 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 international locations to just accept deported immigrants.
