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President Donald Trump’s Guantanamo Bay, a high -level effort to move migrants from the Cuban state of the United Nations to the Navy base, is facing and out of their administration about the difficult, expensive process of making it a difficult, expensive process for housing conditions and its exile.
Last month, the administration took unprecedented steps to send refugees to Guantanamo Bay on US military aircraft, which gave rise to a severe reaction from immigrant supporters and indicated that migrant lawyers were prosecuted. An American official told CNN that the last flight of a military plane to Guantanamo Bay was March 1, and there are no DOD flights to the base expected in the coming days.
Until Thursday, no migrants were detained at the Navy’s base, and 40 people were returned to the United States this week, the official said. CNN reported in February that plans to keep immigrants in the tents are being stopped, and these concerns do not meet the required detention standards through immigration and customs implementation.
On Friday, a federal judge will hear a case related to the use of the facility, which was also born in the case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as with other immigrants’ advocacy groups. The legalism raises the question of whether immigrants can be legally transferred from the United States to Guantanamo. It also raises concerns about the residential conditions of the detainees and their advice.
According to Democrat representative Sarah Jacobs, the administration has already spent about $ 16 million on the operation.
“What we really saw was that there is very little ability, and it is really expensive, and I can’t see any operational reasons for the use of Guantanamo Bay for immigration detention,” Jacobs told CNN. “It was clearly just because Donald Trump liked Optics.”
The Department of Defense declined to comment on this article and handed over further questions to the snow. The Homeland Security Department did not respond to a comment.
For weeks, federal agencies have executed 30,000 migrants to prepare for a home, including the defense of the departments and Homeland Security, to prepare for 30,000 migrants – although barely a section of the number can be adjusted. According to Jacobs, the current capacity is 225 people.
ICE official Joan Lopez Vega, who oversees operations in Guantanamo, recently said in court records that a total of 290 migrants from several countries have been shifted to the base.
In late February, the administration deported 177 Venezuelan immigrants – who were kept in Guantanamo Bay after moving from the United States to Venezuela.
The US official told CNN that the DOD and the DHS recently signed a memorandum of understanding of the role of every department in Guantanamo and the DOD’s support for DOD ice.
Another US official described the facility as “the basic method of action”, rather than that the officials were watching US military bases more deliberately on using migrants domestic.
The use of Guantanamo has also been presented in plans to detain immigrants who are considered dangerous, such as members of criminal organizations. Venezuela One source said that gang train de Aragwa. Another US official also said it was likely that the naval base could be used to detain cartel members. Train De Aragwa was recently named a foreign terrorist organization and is the main target of the anticipated use of a war time authority.
But one of the major points facing officials is trying to meet the strict standards of ice concentration, which Sketches for the facilities that keep immigrantsOne source said, and treason among the contractors in view of logistic challenges.
Jacobs told CNN that of the amount spent by the DOD, 1 3.1 million was spent fully on setting up tent structures, which was eventually not in use and still did not work. Another US official said that the tents that were set up at the naval base are expected to be released for possible use in the hurricane season.
In addition to tents, the camp VI-Guantanamo consists of the only personal cells with the convenience and sinking of the concentration and has access to a sectarian day daily, while the hostelry style has been developed at the pre-existing refugee Operation Center and according to the facilities explaining the facilities.
The conditions for facilities have come under scrutiny. Guantanamo Bay, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Green, in charge of detention operations, has refused to eat some detainees, which has led to weight loss. Green also said that a prevention chair was used six times on February 28-each time Venezuela detainees who were harming themselves.
CNN’s Angelica Fringeno Dazz participated in the report.
