A federal courtroom on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three migrants to the detention middle at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
U.S. District Decide Kenneth J. Gonzales quickly halted the switch of three migrants from Venezuela, saying in a submitting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was holding them in New Mexico.
The three Venezuelan migrants started difficult their detention earlier than the presidential election. They raised the Guantánamo switch over the weekend, in mild of the Trump administration starting to switch Venezuelans “depicting similar characteristics.”
The decide within the case, who was appointed by former President Obama, famous that his resolution “is limited in scope to these three Petitioners.”
Late final month, President Trump signed a memo to arrange a facility at Guantánamo Bay for using housing deported migrants. The president had beforehand teased his intention to take action amid a signing ceremony for a invoice associated to immigration.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump stated at an occasion to signal into legislation the Laken Riley Act.
“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 Guantánamo,” the president continued. “This will double our capacity immediately. And tough, it’s a tough place to get out of.”
In a Monday press launch, a Middle for Constitutional Rights legal professional stated “the Trump administration is invoking the specter of Guantánamo, known around the world as a shameful symbol of torture and lawlessness, to terrorize our clients … and others like them.”
“Our shoppers refuse for use as pawns on this twisted recreation of punishment theater,” senior workers legal professional Jessica Vosburgh stated.
The Middle for Constitutional Rights represented the migrants.
The Hill has reached out to ICE, the White Home, and the departments of Justice and Homeland Safety for remark.
Zach Schonfeld contributed reporting.
