The number of immigrants accused of “high threat” is raised at the Guantanamo base. To date there are 68 detainees there by US authorities.
The US army currently houses about 68 detainees in its prison in the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba, as part of an effort to help the national security department with Mass deportations.
The head of the South Command of the United States, which supervises the Naval Base in Guantanamo, shared the updated figure with legislators on Wednesday, but said that it could not yet provide details about how much it will cost to house the growing number of people.
Admiral Alvin Holsey said that these efforts include both the arrest of persons described by the officials of the Department of National Security (DHS) and “high threat criminal foreigners” and eventually, eventually, the arrest of up to 30,000 immigrants Non -violent waiting to be deported.
“We are making a gradual approach,” Holsey told the members of the Senate commission over the Armed Forces, and added that the base now has the capacity to house some 2,500 non -violent immigrants.
“We are working with DHS to understand the flow of migrants,” he said. “We are not going to reach 30,000 unless we know that this migratory flow will arrive. Therefore, at this moment we are waiting. ”
The United States transport command told the Voice of America on Monday that there have been at least five migrants flights to the Guantanamo base, in military cargo aircraft C-17 or C-130.
Most flights, according to several officials, have transported between 10 and 15 detainees.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, who visited the prison on Friday Past and supervised the transfer of the third flight of detainees to the detention center, he has repeatedly described men as “vicious murderers and gang members” of Venezuela and as “the worst of the worst.”
In a publication on social networks, Noem said that at least one of the migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay had confessed a murder, while others were sought for attempted murder, assault, arms trafficking and impersonation of identity.
An official, who spoke with the Voa Under anonymity to be able to talk about deportation efforts, he said that all individuals detained at the Guantanamo base had received final deportation orders. But the DHS has not yet provided the accusation documents or other details about the detainees.
On Wednesday, the American Union for Civil Liberties (ACLU), together with several immigration rights groups, filed a lawsuit against the DHS, claiming that the detainees who are in the prison of the Guantanamo base have been denied improperly access to lawyers.
“By precipitating immigrants to a remote island, isolated from their lawyers, family and the rest of the world, the Trump administration is sending its clearest signal so far that the rule of law means nothing to it,” according to a statement From the main lawyer of the ACLU, Lee Gelernt.
“Now it will be up to the courts to reaffirm that the rule of law governs our nation,” he added.
According to the ACLU and other groups, one of the plaintiffs in the petition, Eucharis Carolina Gómez Lugo, learned that his brother had been sent to the Guantanamo base only after seeing him in a photo.
The group also said that it was surprised to learn that the government claimed that it was a member of the Venezuelan gang of Aragua.
The DHS dismissed the accusations of demand.
“There is a system to use the phone to communicate with lawyers,” said a senior national security official in a written statement shared with the Voa.
“If the American union for civil liberties care more about highly dangerous criminal foreigners, including murderers and members of ruthless gangs, than for US citizens, they should change their name,” added the official, who responded to the lawsuit only low Anonymity condition.