Trump administration backtracks on Guantánamo
Yes, it’s temporary, but it’s something. Resistance can work.
“With a key hearing before a federal judge looming that could stop or slow the Trump administration’s transfer of more migrants to Guantánamo Bay, migrants the administration has already sent to Cuba have now been quietly returned to the United States, according to The Washington Post.
“Forty men were reportedly the last group of immigrants being held at the Guántanamo Bay naval station, the paper said Wednesday. The transfer reportedly occurred over the last two days, when the men were sent back to the U.S. and detained at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities in Alexandria, Louisiana.
“This is the second time that a group of immigrants has been sent to Guantánamo Bay and then abruptly relocated since President Donald Trump first issued his executive order in January directing an expansion of “migrant operations” at Guántanamo for “high-priority criminal aliens.”
“The first time was in February, and according to The New York Times, that group consisted of 177 Venezuelans. They were not returned to the U.S. but instead were sent back to Venezuela.”
I’m all for deporting immigrants convicted of serious crimes, but they need to be tried here, not at a Cuban black site. We’re better than that.
Migrants moved back to the US from Gitmo
“With a key hearing before a federal judge looming that could stop or slow the Trump administration’s transfer of more migrants to Guantánamo Bay, migrants the administration has already sent to Cuba have now been quietly returned to the United States, according to The Washington Post.
“Forty men were reportedly the last group of immigrants being held at the Guántanamo Bay naval station, the paper said Wednesday. The transfer reportedly occurred over the last two days, when the men were sent back to the U.S. and detained at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities in Alexandria, Louisiana.
“This is the second time that a group of immigrants has been sent to Guantánamo Bay and then abruptly relocated since President Donald Trump first issued his executive order in January directing an expansion of “migrant operations” at Guántanamo for “high-priority criminal aliens.”
“The first time was in February, and according to The New York Times, that group consisted of 177 Venezuelans. They were not returned to the U.S. but instead were sent back to Venezuela.”
I’m all for deporting immigrants convicted of serious crimes, but they need to be tried here, not at a Cuban black site. We’re better than that.
Migrants moved back to the US from Gitmo