The Trump administration recently shifted immigration prisoners from the countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and Caribbean at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, dramatically expanding the nationalities of the people held there, the internal American government records received by the CBS News Show.
Earlier this week, the immigration prisoners of Guantanamo Bay – have been detained separately from the suspects of terrorism held at the US military base – consisted of citizens of China, Jamaica, Liberia and United Kingdom according to federal documents.
Two US officials said that most of the people detained on the basis are considered to be “high-risk” prisoners, who are. Defined As individuals with violent or otherwise serious criminal records by immigration officers, history of disruptive behavior or perceived gang relations.
Transfer, which was not reported earlier, indicates a significant expansion in the efforts of the Trump administration that parts of the Gwantanamo Bay are converted into immigration prohibitals so that foreigners are facing exile.
Since President Trump ordered his administration to detain “high-purpose” foreigners with criminal records earlier this year, the facilities there have been mainly kept by Spanish-speaking Latin American prisoners from countries such as Nicaragua and Venezuela before their formal exile.
But the decision to use Guantanamo Bay to keep immigration prisoners from more remote countries in Africa, Asia and Europe underlines the wider scope of action on illegal immigration of Trump administration.
A defense officer told CBS News that there were 54 immigration in Gwantanamo Bay on Tuesday.
It is not clear why the administration decided to move detainees from Asia, Africa and Europe to Guantanamo Bay. But America has an immigration system system thoroughly Its funding capacity as its Congress, as ICE has increased efforts across the country to arrest immigrants illegally in the US.
In early June, Politico Informed For a possible transfer in Gwantanamo Bay, thousands of prisoners from various countries, including European colleagues, were vet, a report that White House rejected Those days.
Representatives of the Departments of Homeland Security and State did not respond to a series of questions, including whether African, Asian and European prisoners are expected to be deported by Guantanamo Bay.
The use of Guantanamo Bay to pursue its large -scale exile agenda of the Trump administration has faced strong criticism and legal challenges from the advocates of civil rights, which argues that the government does not have the right to keep immigration prisoners on the basis of America, which was disputed before the cuban land, which was disputed before the emergence.
While Trump’s top administration officials such as Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nom and White House Deputy Chief Staff Stephen Miller have repeatedly highlighted detention efforts in Guantanamo Bay, they have provided public information about operation based on the base and which are being sent there.
Reporting by CBS News And other news organizations have confirmed that the administration has sent both the prisoners to the Guantanamo Bay as “high-risk” and “low-risk”, including men from Venezuela, who have denied allegations that they were members of the gang.
Those classified as “high -risk” are detained at Gwantanamo Bay’s Camp VI, which is a part of the Post -9/11 prison, which still keeps about a dozen terrorism suspects suspects, although in a separate part of the campus.
The “low-risk” prisoners-the definition of the definition of a serious criminal record or any record, is placed in the operation center beyond civil immigration violations, historically a barrack-like feature on the base that is used to accommodate contradictions in the sea.
CBS News also revealed an internal government in May Memorandum Showing that the authorities created a broad set of criteria, which could be sent to the Gwantanamo Bay, which was not mentioned criminality, despite the President’s saying that only those who had called “the worst” will be held on the base.
The Defense Department told the Congress in May that by 8 April it had spent more than $ 21 million flying immigration prisoners in Guantanamo Bay or $ 26,000 per flying hour.
A defense officer said that till Tuesday, the base of the base was a housing of 41 and 13 prisoners respectively.
The Trump administration has demanded a message of detention by using or proposing controversial detention centers like Guantanamo Bay to catch people accused of violating the US immigration law.
In March, the administration flew over 200 people from Venezuela, in which gang members were labeled in Al Salvador, who imprisoned them in CECOT, its infamous maximum security jail. Recently, the Trump administration has announced that it has been working with the Florida state officials to establish an immigration preventive center in the wetlands of Everglades. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump visited the facility that the authorities have dubbed “Elegator Alkatraz.”
