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The idea of closing Guantanamo as a prison is one thing; closing Guantanamo as a 45-square-mile base held in Cuba is another,
That is not the case today,
said Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights, These were refugees fleeing slaughter in their country, whose credible fear of persecution the U.S. officials who screened them acknowledged, who were held for no reason other than their HIV status. When these people protest detention, the response was brutal,
said Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney at the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights, to reporters during a press call last Thursday Detention plays a crucial role in deportation. … More detention means more people would be deported,
I've been told that some were released because of some health concerns that we could not handle within ICE detention,
Homan said, according to a pool report That’s what’s needed to be able to dismantle them and eventually deport them from the United States,
There's a theatrical dimension to this. But this is it. This is an operetta for which the seats are extremely expensive,
Nothing has changed in terms of that basic guideline, which means that the writ of habeas corpus, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution in so many words, applies there,
Here's what we know. What President Trump knows is that border security and internal enforcement is national security. Because we were invaded for the last four years under Joe Biden,
Unauthorized immigrants transferred (or threatened with potential transfer) from the United States to Guantánamo will file a vast array of legal challenges, providing a lot of business for the courts,
he wrote in an article published Tuesday Congress is going to have to appropriate some money because it's not going to be free for the taxpayers,
Unauthorized immigrants detained in the United States also have a right to counsel and to be visited by a consular official from their country of nationality,
You've got the hardened facility for Tren de Aragua, violent gang member types who need that kind of lock down. And then you have on the other side of the island of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, a place built for migrants, for those who peacefully are going to be extricated out of the United States,
What you're going to see is an intersection of habeas corpus law generally with the very robust body of law that has grown up over the years in the immigration field,
Sending immigrants to Guantanamo is a profoundly cruel, costly move,
Fischer said in a statement It will cut people off from lawyers, family and support systems, throwing them into a black hole so the US government can continue to violate their human rights out of sight,
Unprecedented, because Guantanamo has been used to hold people who are coming to the United States. It's never been used as a place to send people who've been in the United States, especially those who have been lawfully in the United States at some point,
The Trump administration may find the symbolism of sending migrants to Guantanamo darkly appealing; its practical result would be more injustice, waste and self-inflicted loss of credibility,
Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So, we're going to send them out to Guantanamo,
If you're a violent gang banger, and you've been taken out of our country, and we're waiting to bring you to your country, we're going to put you in a cell box built for al-Qaida,
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News this week
