The White House moves the US to migrants held at the Guantanamo base. These are 40 people, including 23 “highly dangerous,” according to President Donald Trump's administration.
President Donald Trump's government has removed the last migrants retained at its Naval Bay of Guantanamo BayCuba, and has sent them back to the United States while waiting for their deportation.
Two US defense officials informed the Voice of America On Wednesday that 40 detainees, including 23 “highly dangerous illegal foreigners”, imprisoned at the base arrest center, were transferred to Louisiana on Tuesday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to be able to refer to the operation, affirmed that the detainees were transferred in a non -military aircraft by order of officials of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE).
Neither the ICE nor its parent agency, the Department of National Security, have responded to the requests for comments.
Last week, in response to an updated information request on the detainees in Guantanamo, an ICE spokesman declined to comment “due to pending litigation.”
ICE and the Department of National Security (DHS), which have led deportation efforts in the United States during Trump's presidency, have repeatedly refused to answer questions about the identity of detainees, their countries of origin or the crimes that are charged to them.
The US National Security, Kristi Noem, declared on social networks that many of the “highly dangerous illegal foreigners” sent to Guantanamo are members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua And they have confessed or have been accused of murder, attempted murder, aggression, drug trafficking and drug -related crimes.
The Trump government announced at the end of January its plans to use the American naval base in Guantanamo to stop migrants who would be deported.
At that time, Noem told the press that the facilities would be used to house “the worst among the worst.”
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, who also spoke at the end of January, He described the Guantanamo detention center As “the perfect place” to house criminals who would be deported, but also said that the installation, initially built in the 1990s, would also open for non -violent migrants waiting for deportation.
The first detainees began arriving at the Guantanamo base in February aboard US military cargo aircraft, some of which remained there days or weeks before being deported.
Sometimes, the base came to house almost 200 detainees between prison and migrant facilities.
Last month, ICE deported 177 detainees from the Guantanamo base to Honduras, from where they would be transferred to Venezuela for repatriation, before bringing more arrested.
Immigrant rights groups, including the American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU), have filed multiple demands against the US government for the use of Guantanamo Bay.
A claim, filed earlier this month, seeks to prevent US officials from transferring migrants to the base, claiming that these transfers violate US law.
A previous demand, filed in February, claimed that the US government had prevented relatives and lawyers from contacting the detainees.
The DHS has dismissed the accusations in the demands.
“The American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU) seems much more interested in promoting the opening of borders and disturbing public security missions than in protecting the civil freedoms of Americans; They should consider changing their name, ”said a DHS spokesman to the Voa Earlier this month.
“Meanwhile, we will continue working with the Department of Justice to defend ourselves from these unfounded legal challenges,” he added.