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This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty.”
The order additionally states Anyone who commits a crime should be held accountable. That’s why I voted to pass the Laken Riley Act,
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat from Nevada, wrote on X on January 20. Thus they will have the same rights as any refugee – more, in fact, as Trump has already unwisely said he can’t send them home, which means there will be a strong case that they cannot be held indefinitely,
In this bill, if a person is so much as accused of a crime, if someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they would be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and sent out for deportation without a day in court,
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was quoted by The Associated Press news agency as saying The facilities at Guantanamo have become emblematic of the gross human rights abuses and torture perpetrated by the US government in the name of counterterrorism.”
In the same report, Amnesty said Bush said his Guantanamo scheme would help end terrorism, and it did precisely the opposite. Trump’s scheme will likewise make the US less safe, rather than more,
Clive Stafford Smith, one of the first human rights lawyers to gain entry to the prison after it opened and whose clients include Guantanamo inmates, told Al Jazeera The message I convey remains consistent: it is in the interest of the United States to support the Philippines' interests — from our military modernization and economic development to the welfare and protection of Filipinos in this country,
NaFFAA unequivocally opposes any policy that may exacerbate fear, discrimination, or marginalization. Hate has no place in our communities, and we must remain vigilant against policies that may erode the rights and protections of Filipino Americans and other communities of color,
What Trump is doing in sending migrants to Guantánamo – a place of torture and death – makes me think that the author of the book about Trump being the antichrist is on to something,
tweeted the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff This is political theater and part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to paint immigrants as threats in the United States … and fan anti-immigrant sentiment,
said Eleanor Acer, the senior director for refugee protection at the advocacy group Human Rights First And the idea is to just scare the hell out of immigrant communities all around the United States too,
The whole thing is just absurd … Guantánamo is essentially designed to prevent outside scrutiny. Human rights abuses will be hidden, ... The Trump administration is thumbing its nose at the law and the rule of law.”
Trump’s order [sends] a clear message … Migrants and asylum seekers are being cast as the new terrorist threat, deserving to be discarded in an island prison, removed from legal and social services and supporters”.
Vincent Warren, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights legal advocacy group, said The president is 100% correct to use Guantánamo,
the Texas Republican Chip Roy told Fox News, with the channel’s reporter celebrating Trump’s “creative” and “innovative” idea The reopening of an international symbol of human rights abuses is a signal to Trumpists who believe the workers of the global south deserve the same punishment as supposed members of al-Qaida and the Islamic State,
This is unlawful, inhumane, and a clear violation of US and international law,
the ACLU said in a statement We will keep Laken's memory alive in our hearts forever,
In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory Cuba, of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention.”
It didn’t take long for the US base’s newest possible incarnation to draw the ire of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who wrote on X ICE has the highest detention standards in the industry,
President Trump’s decision to use Guantánamo – global symbol and site of lawlessness, torture, and racism – to house immigrants should horrify us all,
said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement
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