Thursday, June 12, 2025 - US President, Donald Trump is set to send thousands more illegal migrants to the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay starting this week amid his mass deportation plan.
In February, Trump deployed members of the Armed
Forces to expand the capacity of a detention facility at
the Cuba base.
This week, at least 9,000 people are being identified for a
potential transfer to the prison as early as Wednesday, Politico reported.
Currently, around 500 migrants have been held at the jail
known as 'Gitmo' for short stints in the past few months.
A document obtained by the outlet said that several hundred
Europeans - including over a hundred Russians and Romanians - that has
the State Department worried.
'The message is to shock and horrify people, to upset
people, but we're allies,' an anonymous State Department official familiar with
the plans said. The White House also faces legal challenges to the policy.
Trump announced plans for his administration to detain
as many as 30,000 high priority migrants with criminal records at the military
base at Guantanamo Bay.
Legal experts stress that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will
still have legal rights afforded to them by the Constitution, as the Supreme
Court defended terror suspects right to habeas corpus and a lawyer.
'The government's view at that time was that Guantanamo was
sort of outside the parameters of the U.S. Constitution, and whoever was there
had no rights, whatever. And the Supreme Court rejected that,' Eugene
Fidell, Yale Law School military law expert noted.
'We don't want them coming back, so we're sending them to
Guantanamo,' he said at the White House.
Trump's border czar Tom Homan told reporters the
administration would expand the capacity of the facility as the military has
planned to erect temporary tents.
'We’re just going to expand upon that existing migrant center,' Homan said.
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