Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated she’s assured that steps the federal government is taking to deport sure migrants from the U.S. mainland to Guantánamo Bay are authorized.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Dana Bash acknowledged that Guantánamo Bay has been used prior to now to accommodate deported migrants however stated she doesn’t imagine the jail has housed migrants who have been detained on U.S. soil after crossing the border illegally.
Requested if she’s assured she has the authorized authority to take action, Noem stated, “I am, and the President’s comfortable with that, and his legal scholars are.”
“And obviously there’ll be people that will be critics of that, but we are standing up the operations, believing we have all legal right and authority to do so, and that facility has been used for migrants in the past,” Noem stated.
“The direction that they’re flowing, and the agreements that we have with their home countries, will continue to keep that population changing,” she continued.
The president in late January signed a memo directing the Division of Protection and Division of Homeland Safety to arrange a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay, a facility in Cuba that has been used to accommodate army prisoners, together with a number of Al Qaeda operatives linked to the 9/11 assaults.
The order didn’t define any particular timeline for establishing the power, however U.S. troops arrived on the base earlier this month to offer assist with development of tents close to an current migration detention facility. And inside every week of the chief order, the Pentagon confirmed that officers have flown 10 migrants described as “high-threat individuals” to the power in Cuba.
On Sunday, Noem stated “several planes” of migrants have arrived on the facility this previous week.
