The Trump administration began on Tuesday to transfer immigrants who entered the country undocumented to the Guantanamo Naval Base.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed that the first flights were already underway.
“President Trump is not playing and will no longer allow the United States to be a landfill for illegal criminals of nations around the world,” Leavitt said in Fox Business Network.
Trump orders to prepare installation in Guantanamo to house immigrants
Last week, Trump signed a memorandum that ordered the Department of Defense and the National Security Department to prepare 30,000 beds for imigrants at the base, which has been used to house military prisoners, including several involved in the terrorist attacks of the 11 of September.
“The due process will be followed and having facilities in the Guantanamo Bay will be an advantage for us,” said the National Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday, in “Meet The Press.”
Military flights have already deported migrants to Guatemala, Peru, Honduras and India. The Pentagon has said that he plans to deport more than 5,000 migrants arrested by the US authorities in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.
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Trump has increasingly resorted to the military to help carry out their immigration agenda, including sending additional border troops, the use of military airplanes to remove migrants from the United States and the opening of military bases To help them house them.
The base already houses an installation for migrants, separated from the American high security prison for foreign terrorism suspects, which has been used occasionally for decades, even to retain Haitians and Cubans collected in the sea.
