The Trump administration said that Guantanamo would house the most violent undocumented migrants -- but relatives of some detainees say they don't have criminal records.
D.C.; South Florida and West Texas offices went unanswered. At least seven military flights carrying an undisclosed number of detainees have left El Paso's Fort Bliss for Guantanamo Bay, according to social media posts by the Department of Defense U.S ...
Guantanamo's sordid past includes top secret torture facilities, the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing political violence, a concentration camp for people with HIV, and ongoing brutalization of Muslim detainees after 9/11 who were famously waterboarded and otherwise tortured.
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
Nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay have been returned to their home country.
open image in gallery U.S. military personnel have constructed tents surrounding the Guantanamo Bay prison facility in ... Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez ...
Nearly one-third of immigrants detained at the military prison are ‘lower-threat,’ but the Trump administration says they don’t have a ‘statutory right to counsel’