Guantanamo deportations: What is Trump’s plan? Why is he controversial? | News Donald Trump
The President of the United States Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive command that seeks Packed with Guantanamo BayUS Cuba Prison, in custody for unauthorized immigrants.
About 11 million such immigrants live in the United States, where the total population is 341 million, according to estimates of the Pew Research Center.
Discussions about immigration have dominated US politics in recent years and have been a key part of the recent presidential election campaign. Trump promised to spend the “biggest deportation in American history.”
However, so far, the object has been used to accommodate only those that are now described as “illegal enemy fighters” – not unproven migrants.
Here is more about Trump’s plans for Guantanamo Bay, a infamous camp in which US military officials have previously been charged with using tactics of torture against prisoners:
What did Trump say about Guantanamo Bay?
Trump signed an executive command on Wednesday called “”Expanding the Operations Center of Migrants at the Guantanamo Navy Station to full capacity. “
This command directs US secretaries of defense and homeland security to work on the spread of the Guantanamo Bay “to a full capacity to ensure additional detentional space for criminal alien aliens of high priority that are illegally present in the United States.”
Trump said that 30,000 beds will be available to accommodate the “worst” unfathomable immigrants, which means those with criminal records, saying that his administration “does not believe” their countries of origin to hold them.
The command further says: “This memorandum is betrayed to stop the invasion of the border, dismantle criminal cartels and return national sovereignty.”
Trump announced this action when signing the first legislation of his second presidential term, the Laken Riley Act, which also seeks to throw out the unauthorized immigrants.
He said, “Today’s signatures bring us closer to the step closer to the eradication of the whip of migrant crime in our communities once and for all.”
This is one of the many cases in which Trump has linked unauthorized migrants with crime in the United States. However, a 2023 studies Economists at US universities analyzed prison rates and census data from 1870 to 2020 and found that immigrants were consistently less likely to be closed from people born in the US.
What is Laken Riley Act?
The Laken Riley Law is a bill that has passed the Republican majority Congress, and was signed on Wednesday by Trump, also a Republican.
The proposal of the law requires that the Ministry of Internal Security “detained certain nationals who are not in the United States (aliens under Federal Law) arrested for burglary, theft, theft or theft.”
The law was named after a 22-year-old nurse student who was killed in the Campus of Georgia University in February. The unfathomable immigrant of Venezuela, Jose Antonio Ibarra, was found guilty of her murder.
Ibarra was previously arrested for theft. He took the right to the jury trial, and was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without conditional discharge in November.
Some Democrats opposed legislation.
“In this account, if a person is so accused of a crime, if one wants to score a finger and accuse someone of theft, he would be rounded up and put in a private detention camp and sent a deportation without a day in court,” New York representative Alexandria Fathers-Cortez The Associated Press news agency quoted.
However, some Democrats voted for the bill – mainly representatives of the state of Battleground, where elections can potentially beat or democrats or Republicans.
In the House of Representatives, the Law Bill adopted 263-156 with the support of 46 Democrats. In Senate, the bill adopted 64-35, and 12 Democrats voted in favor. Democrats who approved the bill of law were from Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire, Georgia, Michigan and Virginia.
“Anyone who commits a crime should be responsible. Therefore I voted to pass Laken Riley’s Law,” Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada, wrote on x January 20th.
Where is Guantanamo Bay?
The detention center is located at the Guantanamo Bay Bay on the east peak of Cuba. This is about 800 km (500 miles) southeast of Florida.
What is the history of the detention center?
In November 2001, after the attack on September 11, 2001 at New York City and Washington, DC, then President, George W Bush, signed a military order that now enabled the custody of foreign nationals no charge for indefinitely as part of the American “war against terrorism”.
The prison holding them was at the Guantanamo base. It Open on 11 January 2002And the first 20 prisoners were brought – mainly from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Kuwait and the United Kingdom.
In the last two decades, 780 men and teenagers have been held there (at least 15 prisoners classified as “minors”), many without charges.
“Bush said his scheme in Guantanama would help end terrorism, which did the exact opposite. Trump scheme will also make less safe now, not more,” said Clive Stafford Smith, one of the first human rights lawyers who is entered prison after open and whose clients include the Guantanamo prisoners, for Al Jazeera.
In December 2002. The then US Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld Greenlite series of prison test techniques, including sensory denial, insulation, stress positions and dog use to “cause stress”.
In 2009, Democratic former President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close prison. However, it remained open as Obama faced a double -sided opposition for security problems, and Congress passed a law that blocked the closure. Obama’s command eventually reversed the executive command that Trump signed in 2018 during his first term. Democratic President Joe Biden again launched an offer of Obama’s administration to close the prison, but the prison remained open after Congress re -opposed the prisoner transfers.
Since January 6, 15 prisoners have remained in Guantanamo Bay after most of the people in prison were releasedThey have never been charged with any crime and have returned to their home or third countries over the years.
According to a report for a real Amnesty International, only seven prisoners in Guantanama has ever been convicted of terrorist offenses, including five as a result of pre-pro-pro-bodied agreements under which they declared themselves guilty in exchange for the possibility of release from the base.
In the same report, Amnesty said: “The Guantanam objects have become emblematic from the rough violations of human rights and torture that the US government has committed on behalf of anti -terrorism.”
Amnesty referred to another report in 2023 of a special reporter of the United Nations on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, at the same time suppressing terrorism that was, “Details 21 years of unlimited custody for 780 Muslim men and boys, and countless human rights of violations against them. “
Is Trump’s plan to hold unproven immigrants in Guantanamo sustainable?
Stafford Smith said that Trump “has a raw power to take people there, just as President Bush did with detainees in January 2002.”
He pointed out that the difference is now that, unlike prisoners taken from foreign countries to the Guantanamo Bay, unauthorized immigrants will be taken from the USA in prison.
This means “they will have all legal rights [US] Residents there, including the whole constitution and the right to a suitable court, “he said. He added that in this case, the Guantanamo Bay will function as a “only different detention center” for immigrants that would otherwise be held in the US.
“Therefore, they will have the same rights as any refugee – in fact, as Trump has already said slightly that he cannot send them home, which means that it will be a powerful case that they cannot be held forever,” said Stafford Smith. He explained that refugees would be allowed to visit family visits, unlike prisoners currently detained in Guantanama.
Stafford Smith, who has repeatedly visited Guantanamo Bay to meet with clients, said there are only 500 cells in prison and several other spaces for people, but even if Trump has detained 30,000 people, it would be a very small percentage Of the total number of immigrants he promised to deport, making his action “completely unobtrusive in a large scheme”.
Will there be a legal procedure to stop it?
Stafford Smith predicted that legal proceedings would be taken to stop Trump’s recent lawsuit and, since prisoners would have legal rights, “it will be much easier for us as lawyers” compared to earlier legal cases against the Guantanamo prison system.
He quoted the example of a cases submitted by the Constitutional Rights Center, the advocacy group, in 2002, on behalf of four men held at the Guantanamo Bay. The case was claimed against prison for an indefinite period of time, depriving their clients without lawful hearing. In June 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the detainee. Two men were already released at that time. The other two were released after the verdict.
Stafford Smith considered Trump’s new action “Populist Charade meant to show people now that something was doing something.”
