This time, detained undocumented immigrants — not terrorism suspects — demonstrate why the prison should be closed.
On Feb. 7, he and other Venezuelan men in ICE detention in El Paso were awakened and told they were going back to Venezuela, Purroy Roldan said. They were transported to Miami and put aboard a military plane – and realized they were actually going to Guantanamo.
The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.
The Trump administration has brought the detention facility back into the limelight by transporting migrants to the remote outpost aboard U.S. military aircraft. Over the past week, seven military flights have transferred at least 112 illegal migrants to the base, with plans to expand capacity significantly.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have removed deported migrants from a facility on the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the Trump administration
Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.
The messages are all from Venezuelan moms living in Venezuela, Colombia, and the U.S. They are desperate for information about their sons now detained at the U.S. naval station on Guantánamo Bay ...
LUIS Alberto Castillo, a father of one from Venezuela, entered the United States on Jan 19, one day before Donald Trump became president for a second term – swept into office on a promise to treat migrants in the country illegally with a heavy hand.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement transported 177 migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras for final removal to Venezuela, according to a post on X from the agency. Most of the migrants ...