Officials say the US has sent the first group of migrants to Guantanamo Bay as President Donald Trump has announced a plan to expand migrant custody on the base.
A brief statement by the Homeland Security Department (DHS) stated that the captives were part of the train de Argua – a gang that was born in Venezuela jails.
The BBC US partner CBS News, citing several US officials, said that on Tuesday afternoon, ten detainees were flown from the Fort Bliss Army Base near the Texas border near the Texas border in Cuba.
Last week, Trump ordered that an existing migrant preventive facility should be extended to keep around 30,000 people on the basis.
He said that the American will double the American capacity to catch the unspecified migrants.
The step is part of Trump’s attempt to tighten the migrants in the US after returning to the office. He has promised arrests and large-scale exile.
In Tuesday’s brief statement, DHS Secretary Christie Nom said: “President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will organize the worst. Today begins.”
The department published several pictures of the prisoners carrying the aircraft. Two officials told CBS that the group was considered a “high-ranking”.
Trump ordered that Train de Argua be nominated as a foreign terrorist organization last month, as part of the target gangs and cartel.
The current facility – the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) – has been used by both Republicans and Democrats for the House migrants for decades. It has mainly organized migrants raised in the sea.
The extended facility will be run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the limit Trump tsar Tom Homan said last week.
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Announcing his plan last week that the facility be expanded, Trump said: “Some of them are so bad that we do not even trust countries to catch them because we do not want them to back Are Coming.
“So we are going to send them to Guantanamo … It’s a difficult place to get out.”
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The New York Times and CNN reported that American military personnel traveled to Guantanamo Bay on the weekend so that tents could be collected for the migrants of the house.
Last year, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) secretly accused the US government of keeping migrants in “inhuman” conditions indefinitely under “inhuman” conditions.
The administration of Biden, who was the then President, replied that the location “there is no detention facility and none of the migrants there has been detained”.
The GMOC is different from the military prison in Guantanamo, which has been held for years, the prisoners taken in America detained after the 9/11 attacks.
The Cuban government quickly condemned the news of the expansion of the immigration facility last week, President Miguel Diaz-Canal called it “a task of cruelty”.
This has long been considered Guantanamo Bay as a “capture” and condemned the existence of the existence of the US Navy on the island since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.