It has not been informed how many migrants were sent to Guantanamo, what countries are and what crimes they are accused. There are legal gaps on the application of the immigration and nationality law in the US and this decision
The United States sent on Tuesday, February 4, the first flight with migrants arrested in US territory towards a detention center at the Guantanamo military base, located in Cuba, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt reported.
“We will not allow the US to be a landfill of illegal criminals of nations around the world,” he said in statements this morning to the chain Fox News.
However, it has not been informed how many migrants were sent to Guantanamo, what countries are and what crimes they are accused.
President Donald Trump has undertaken a campaign against the more than 11 million undocumented migrants living in the United States, calling them “criminals” and promising to carry out the largest deportation campaign in the history of this country.
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In their first weeks in power, the authorities have arrested more than 3,000 people throughout the country, a figure away from the “mass” raids Trump promised to make.
The president ordered to expand the ability to detention at the Guantanamo Naval Base to house more than 30,000 people and the Pentagon has already deployed more than 150 military for this task.
Among the military deployed are Marina and other military in the southern US command, in charge of Latin America.
Last Wednesday, by signing the memorandum to expand the ability of the migrant center in Guantanamo, Trump said that the measure seeks to “stop the worst illegal criminal immigrants who represent a threat to the American people”
Under American law, living in the country without authorization or legal status is not a criminal foul but civil. Therefore, it is false that undocumented people have in themselves a “criminal history”, as the current government has assured.
Crossing the border without inspection – codified as ‘improper income’ or trying to enter the US after being deported or expelled, it is typified in criminal legislation: the first as a minor crime and the second as a serious crime.
While Guantanamo Bay houses a migrant processing center, it has been largely used for intercepted migrants in the sea, not brought from the United States.
A former National Security official told CNN that with this decision, “they would be expanding the limits of the application (immigration and nationality law).” The immigration law is applied in the United States and it is not clear what will happen to those who are transferred outside the country to be arrested elsewhere.
It is still unknown how long migrants can remain legally detained there and what their rights will be while they are detained. Nor is it clear if migrants will have access to legal or social services while they are detained at the base.
With information from EFE and CNN
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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