Posted on 02/02/2025 6:33:33 AM PST by Libloather
The Pentagon expects to send two flights of migrants to Guantanamo Bay this weekend, the first step in President Donald Trump’s plans to use the the base for detaining people swept up in his crackdown on illegal immigration.
The final details are still getting worked out, according to two defense officials, but the planes likely will join another one headed to Peru as the military seeks to enact Trump’s orders to deport thousands of people in the country illegally.
The military has flown eight flights so far — including four to Guatemala, three to Honduras and one to Ecuador — all using military aircraft. But this is the first time migrants would head to the base in Cuba, which presents a unique set of legal and logistical challenges.
Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that instructs the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department to use the base for migrants. Defense officials have been scrambling since to come up with a plan to house up to 30,000 people, far more than the 780 detainees who stayed in a base detention camp during the peak of the war on terror.
This gives the military another costly, short-notice mission as officials also seek to meet a separate Trump order for more troops at the southern border.
The officials were granted anonymity to speak to an evolving situation.
Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said Wednesday that ICE would be in charge of an expanded facility on Guantanamo, although details are still unclear. The military has traditionally assisted with guarding people housed at the base but not at this scale.
The base is intended to serve as a transit hub for migrants on the way to their home countries, although it’s not clear whether they will be able to easily return.
The base’s detention facilities...
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Could send them to DeKalb county. “Thousands” of those jerk were our “fighting in the streets” wanting more illegals sent to them.
I firmly believe it will happen. All of them, even the least of these........guantanamo
This is absolutely a great plan....and “thinking out of the box”.
We should empty out our prisons and let them serve out their sentence.
Well, if our tax dollars are going to continue supporting these criminals, I’d rather it be where they’re locked up, tight.
We should empty out our prisons and let them serve out their sentence.
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Let who serve out their sentences, where?
Trying to understand your post.
Thx.
Send them to GITMO and then let them escape into the Cuban population. Sounds like a win-win.
“three to Honduras and one to Ecuador”
i’m guessing that, given what happened with Columbia, there wasn’t in problem in landing these flights ... don’t ya’ just LOVE how making an example out of something teaches so many others how to avoid making the same mistakes!
Maybe PDJT can lease a few acres on Greenland....and have the miscreants build there own igloos
Illegals
If Pollutico is whining, you know its a good thing.
MIGRANT??
Are we sending birds back? :)
Migrant, undocumented, freedom seekers, dreamers.
Are we going to start have less unpleasant words for ALL crimes soon?
Thief.....Purveyor of others’ find goods, Non owned asset pursuers :)
Keep a wing open for former federal employees too.
I'm really surprised that Politico would be honest enough to use the term "illegal immigration".
Now, now, you know it is wrong to segregate them. Dump them all in together. It helps unite the world and learn each other’s cultures.
“This gives the military another costly, short-notice mission as officials also seek to meet a separate Trump order for more troops at the southern border.”
Not that this is the ONLY reference to cost. Nothing about the cost of alternatives, like building new federal prisons for them, or continued letting them run loose to rape and kill.
That’s how the media works, hit the Republicans from the right (fiscal responsibility, in this case) whenever possible.
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