Posted on 02/13/2025 11:35:13 PM PST by Morgana
Handcuffed and dressed in jail-issue tracksuits, a small batch of prisoners wait in line to be marched on to a transport plane and flown off to a new home that holds a uniquely notorious place in the annals of US justice.
The ten prisoners, all members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan criminal gang that has managed to infiltrate America, are about to board the very first flight of ‘criminal aliens’, which departed for Guantanamo Bay last week.
More than 20 years after the world saw the first shocking pictures of suspected Islamic terrorists being held at the same US naval base – kneeling in shackles and wearing orange jumpsuits, face masks, goggles and headphones to block their vision and hearing – the Trump government has horrified its critics by co-opting ‘Gitmo’, as it’s often called, as the latest weapon in its battle against illegal immigration.
‘President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will hold the worst of the worst. That starts today,’ said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, referring to the Venezuelans.
Trump has announced that the Cuban base will be a holding centre for 30,000 immigrants – the ‘worst criminal aliens’ and people who are ‘hard to deport’.
The president ‘is not messing around and he’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world’, said his press secretary.
Some will be bound for a small detention centre at the base, which is currently used to house migrants picked up from the Caribbean Sea heading for the US, while many more will be housed in tents that hundreds of soldiers and marines are already erecting.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
B.S. of course, but I don’t care how badly they are treated.
The UK is getting vapors over criminals going to jail...
They should be put down like any vicious animal is.
typical limey daily mail propaganda
ASK ME IF I CARE——
a minefield outside.
By Cuba, to make it hard for the US to supply Gitmo.
"and some are 'tortured' 83 times a month"Based on: "The most notorious of these is Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian who, from 2002, was used as the guinea pig for the CIA’s torture programme, once being waterboarded 83 times in a month."
Prison is hard, even based upon the loss of freedom which we take for granted, but the Left itself works against freedom.
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