Miami.- The United States National Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that it is not ruled out to send to the Guantanamo Naval Base To immigrants who have not committed violent crimes, ensuring that the facilities will meet the requirements.
“We will have facilities that will comply with the same standards of other detention facilities in the United States and I do not believe that the president will tie his hands as to what he should do to guarantee the security of the United States,” he told CNN.
At the beginning of the month, the administration of President Donald Trump began to transfer undocumented migrants to the Naval Base of Guantanamo, Cuba, as part of a stricter immigration policy.
The first group of migrants, composed of ten Venezuelan men allegedly affiliated with the criminal gang Aragua train, He was transferred on February 4 from El Paso, Texas, to Guantanamo on a military plane.
At the end of last month, Trump signed a memorandum to prepare facilities in Guantanamo with the aim of housing deported migrants. During the signing of the Laken Riley Law, the president defended the measure claiming that he had “30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst illegal criminals that threaten the American people”.
Trump about who would go to Guantanamo, said: “Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust that countries retain them, we don’t want them to return, so we will send them to Guantanamo.”
Although the US authorities have assured that the stay at the Guantanamo Naval Base is temporary, it has not been specified what time they will keep the detainees there.
According to the Department of Defense, the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) keeps these individuals at the base while determining whether they will be deported to Venezuela or sent to another destination.
It is the first time that the detention center is used to retain people not suspected of being associated with crimes of terrorism.
This policy is part of a broader effort of the Trump administration to intensify the measures against illegal immigration, including the expansion of detention facilities and the implementation of bilateral agreements to facilitate the repatriation of irregular citizens.
