Homeland Safety shipped its first planeload of unlawful immigrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, with officers saying the airplane carried members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched images Tuesday exhibiting the migrants in grey sweatshirts and pants lined up for the flight. The migrants have their palms in restraints and personnel in camouflage gear are proven checking the migrants over.
“President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will maintain the worst of the worst. That begins immediately,” Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated.
There’s lengthy been a migrant detention facility on the U.S. facility in Cuba.
Mr. Trump final week ordered the federal government to broaden capability on the facility, saying he needs it to have the ability to maintain as much as 30,000 migrants. Guantanamo Bay has lately been often known as the place the place the U.S. has held terrorism suspects.
Utilizing Guantanamo Bay for migrants has ignited a wave of criticism within the U.S., the place immigrant-rights teams say it suggests a symbolic comparability of migrants and terrorists.
“The cruelty of the Trump Administration is aware of no bounds,” stated Angelica Salas, govt director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. “It’s grotesque, cruel, and inhumane to incarcerate immigrants at Guantanamo Bay, a spot so far-off from the communities these immigrants contemplate their solely residence.”
Activists say utilizing the Cuban location may imply the migrants are denied rights they might have in the event that they had been held on U.S. soil. The power at Guantanamo Bay is on Cuban soil and Cuba is technically sovereign.
However the U.S. leases the land and may use it for any objective, and for so long as it needs, beneath the phrases of treaties relationship again to the aftermath of the Spanish-American Warfare that the U.S. has refused to renegotiate with the communist regime that has dominated Cuba since 1959.
