The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.
Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.
Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.
CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.
Has the Orange Turd installed the ovens yet?
Sure would have been nice if Obama or Biden had actually closed Guantanamo Bay when they had the chance.
I liked to find silver linings where I can, and what I’m hoping is that when the shambles of the American government finally get back into Democratic hands (or whatever opposition party replaces them, at this point) there will finally be a realization that actual for real change is needed. Democratic politicians have been just treading water for decades now.
I’m not American so I could be way off but didn’t they try but were blocked by Republicans? At the very least they reduced the count of inmates to only the more complicated ones (ie. where do they get sent to, what do we, do we completely fried this guys brain, etc)
Yeah I remember Obama wanted to close it, but then the big question of where to move the prisoners to in the US had to be answered, and nobody wanted to hold them. It was politically dead at that point.
I hope we all survive long enough for that to happen
Hahaha
Unfortunately, I’ve just seen the “opposition” just fall in line. A bunch of spineless geriatric Nazi sympathizers.
Bold of you to assume that’ll happen in our lifetime.
Right, because what Trump is doing is Biden’s and Obama’s fault…
As much as I hate trump, and boy oh boy do I hate him and elon so much I refuse to even capitalize their names, this is something that Bush started, and then Obama and Biden (and ESPECIALLY OBAMA) had the golden opportunity to do something about during their terms, Obama could have shut it down in 09-10 specifically with the full backing of congress; and they both chose to do nothing and let it remain.
So now we get humans rights violations being committed on migrants instead of just “terrorists”.
Yes Trump is expanding on the human rights violations Obama and Biden put in place.
Take Trump’s order to construct a migrant detention centre in Guantánamo Bay – a space that has for years operated outside international law despite outcries and appeals for closure. Hundreds of prisoners were kept there under military law, often following rendition, disappearance and torture at CIA black sites. Trump’s proposal to detain tens of thousands of migrants there is an outrageous move, but it is not an aberration. He is building, literally, on what came before him.
“Like many of Trump’s authoritarian attacks on human rights, this one has shameful precedents in US history,” Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told CNN. “Long before the second Bush administration used the facility to hold and abuse nearly 800 Muslim men and boys as part of its ‘war on terror’, the first Bush administration held Haitian refugees there to try to deny them their rights under international law.” The prison, in fact, currently houses detained migrants in a facility called the Migrant Operations Center. Last year, the Biden administration awarded a private contractor over $160m (£130m) to run the facility.
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out
Because I’m one of the good onesThe point of Guantanamo Bay is that it’s not under Cuban law and also not quite under US law. So they really want to be able to do anything to the people they deport there.
Having seen some of these leopards-eating-my-face stories, I expect there will be Trump voters who are surprised to suddenly find themselves being tortured in Guantanamo Bay. It’s very frustrating because everyone did try to warn them.
Hopefully it’s just Trump supporters getting that waterboard treatment.
I guess all men are not created equal.
the man who wrote that owned ~150 people and forced children to work in a nail factory
I get the irony but we should still try to work toward the ideal not away from it.
my point is more that american propaganda has always been this. america co-opts the messaging of liberation to subjugate and harm. our best bet is to try to learn what black women were saying in that era. best way to find out is to log out the internet and start connecting with other humans around us
Of course they are. Some are just created more equal.
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The cruelty is the point.
When is a prison camp not a prison camp? When it’s run by the USA! 🥴
It’s not a prison, they’re just concentrating them there.
“when it’s a jarhead’s”
there’s close potential idfk
Aha! Finally unveiling their evil scheme will surely bring them down!
Oh, they announced it themselves. Well, shit.
Thank God he setup a prison camp to hold all the Trumpists and billionaires while they are waiting to be guillotined. That’s going to come in handy.
Abu Ghraib: the sequel
Guantanamo is a notorious US torture facility, it doesn’t need to be compared to other US torture facilities.
oh, agreed. I am talking about the proposed, insane expansion of facilities.
Are there protests happening in the US or are they all going huh he does this and that on social media
Wasn’t a traditional walk out, but just yesterday there was a TikTok spread one that got a few of my students out on the street in LA to protest and cause traffic. Got in the news, at least. Normally non profits and rights groups do it, like in 2017.
Also naturally it’s only Latinos in that, everyone else are very complacent right now.
Since this is about migrants and not about New Coke, i assume not.
Nah most people know migrants they care about
Do they know people without citizenship though?
But those are the “good 'ombres”
Where are you going to send them? Many times the immigrants home countries deny they are their citizens and refuse to accept them back. What do you do then?
Are you suggesting that imprisoning them indefinitely is somehow the correct solution?
There is “no correct solution”. What would you suggest?
Who says they’re planning to send them anywhere?
That is what deportation means, to send them back to their country of origin. If their home country refuses to accept them or denies they are their citizens then what do you do then?
They’re sending them to their auntie’s farm up north
