Miami, United States. – A fourth flight with Venezuelan migrants landed in the Naval Base of Guantanamo, according to official sources from the United States. The new operation occurs in the midst of a growing controversy over the lack of transparency of the White House regarding the process and the conditions of detention of the transferred.
The National Security Department (DHS) has defended the measure arguing that migrants sent to Guantanamo are alleged members of the criminal organization Aragua train. However, relatives of detainees and human rights organizations They have rejected These accusations and denounced that migrants remain incommunicado.
“The arrest of immigrants in Guantanamo without access to lawyers or basic protections is a serious violation of their rights and an alarming abuse of government power,” said Rebecca Lightsey, co -director of American Gateways, according to A report from the EFE news agency.
The United States government has not provided details about the total number of people detained in Guantanamo or their legal situation. According to EFE, at least a hundred Venezuelans have been transferred to the Naval Base in recent months.
The American Union for Civil Liberties (ACLU) and other organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration demanding access to detained migrants and greater transparency in the process. “By sending immigrants to a remote island, isolating them from lawyers and family, the government is demonstrating their contempt for the rule of law,” said Lee Gellnt, of the Acu immigrant rights project.
For its part, the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, has supported the government’s strategy and criticized the plaintiffs. “If the union of American civil liberties is more interested in highly dangerous criminal migrants than in American citizens, the name should be changed,” declared NPR DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.
For decades, the Naval Base of Guantanamo has been used to house Caribbean migrants intercepted in the sea. However, its image has been marked by the use of the Pentagon detention Center, where inmates linked to terrorist attacks remain, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, indicated as the September 11 brain.
Donald Trump’s decision to use the Guantanamo detention center to house up to 30,000 migrants has generated criticism of human rights organizations, which warn about possible prolonged detentions without adequate supervision. Human Rights Watch He warned that this practice “violates human rights and can be equivalent to torture.”
