Posted on 02/04/2025 5:17:31 PM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay has departed and is expected to land Tuesday evening, two U.S. officials said. It is the first step in an expected surge in the number of migrants sent to the Navy base in Cuba, which for decades was primarily used to detain foreigners associated with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
President Donald Trump has eyed the facility as a holding center and said it has the capacity to hold as many as 30,000.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was assigned to Guantanamo Bay when he was on active duty, has called it a “perfect place” to house migrants. Additional U.S. troops have arrived at the facility in the past few days to help prepare.
Amy Fischer, director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, decried the use of Guantanamo to house migrants.
“Sending immigrants to Guantanamo is a profoundly cruel, costly move. It will cut people off from lawyers, family and support systems, throwing them into a black hole so the U.S. government can continue to violate their human rights out of sight. Shut Gitmo down now and forever!” Fischer said in a statement...
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Maybe they are “migrants” after all.
Obviously.
That’s right.
There is so much happening the US pravda doesn’t know what to do.
What a difference an election makes.
Send her there next to help her precious *migrants*.
Que tengas buenas cabezas de caca de viaje!
Exactly.
Every day - every HOUR - is another win.
They’re “migrants”
Now they are migrating to Cuba.
Whats the big deal?
Will they still get their debit cards and free phones?
Long before 911 Gitmo was an immigration detention center.
LOL!
Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was stationed there during his deployment. Good move...Almost one of those God things.
After they see what was going on at USAID hopefully there will be a few guberment people visiting for a stay too.
“””Sending immigrants to Guantanamo is a profoundly cruel, costly move.”””
Yes you are right. But since these are criminals who broke the law to enter the USA and not immigrants this should be no problem.
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