Now they have held migrants in Guantanam before. Is Trump’s approach different? | News Donald Trump

The administration of Donald Trump began to send flights to unproven migrants in the United States into the Gvantanamo Bay. Starting officials painted the move as a usual practice, saying that the Guantanamo Bay was always used to carry out immigration.

“We will have the ability to continue to do what we have always done there. We have always had the presence of illegal immigrants who have been detained. We just build some capacity,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem he said on February 2 at the NBC Meet the Press.

Noem filed a similar request on February 9 in the CNN State, two days after visiting the Guantanamo Bay Bay.

Now they really used the Guantanamo Bay Camp for the detention of certain migrants, but Trump’s use is different, experts for immigration said.

29. January Trump signed a memorandum Direction of the Defense and Homeland Security Department to expand the Operational Center of Migrants in the Guantanamo Bay to “ensure additional space for custody for criminal alien aliens of high priority that are illegally present in the United States.”

The administration provided conflicting information on where migrants would be held at the Guantanamo Bay, how long and under what conditions.

Based on the available information, there are key differences between previous immigration Navy Center and Access to Trump administration::

• Historically speaking, the US used the Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants stopped at sea. Now Trump sends people who were detained on American soil.
• Previously, migrants were held at the Operational Center of Migrants, a different part of the base from prison in which the suspects were accused of “terrorism”. The first group of migrants to arrive at the Guantanamo Bay under Trump were detained in prisons where such suspects were held.
• In recent years, the Migrant Operations Center has held several migrants and has had limited capacity. Trump says he plans to delay 30,000 people. That many people have not been closed in Guantanamo Bay since the 1990s.

When did the Haitians and Cubans now hold the Guantanamo bay

The Guantanamo Bay Bay is better known as high security prison for foreign suspects “terrorism” after the attack on September 11, 2001. But ten years ago, the US used its part as a detention center of migrants.

In the early 1990s, the US Coast Guard kept Haićan and Cubanca intercepted at sea at the Guantanamo Bay. In September 1994, 12,000 Haitians were held and 33,000 Cuban at the Migration Center Guantanamo Baya migrated, the Congress Research Service established. People held themselves in buildings like a tent surrounded by a razor.

People who stick to the Guantanamo Bay did not have access to lawyers who would help them apply for asylum, said law professor Yale Harold Koh for PBS News 2017. Koh sued the US government for the treatment of Haićan at the Guantanamo Bay.

Some haicans and cubans were allowed to apply for asylum; It got it a little. Many Haitians who found that they could apply for asylum were forbidden to enter the US to apply because they were positive on HIV, wrote a national center for immigrant justice, an organization for immigrants, in the 2021 report.

The migrant camp was closed in 1996. But it was not the last time the migrants were held at the Guantanamo Bay.

As the practice has been restarted

The Operations Center of the Guantanamo migrant, which is separated from the custody center in which there are about 130 people, may have a doubt, an international group that documented the immigration custody worldwide.

The Ministry of Homeland Security did not respond to the request of politifacts about how many migrants were in the Guantanamo Bay before Trump’s order. But in September 2024, the New York Times reported that the Center held 37 people from 2020 to 2023, and four people from February 2024. People detained at sea there, the US coastal guard.

People are overjoyed at sea and sent to Guantanamo do not have the opportunity to seek asylum in the United States, according to an international project to help refugees in September 2024. Instead, they have to choose between returning to the country where they flee or wait at the Guantana Bay to accept them by a third country.

Guarante migrants are missing “access to basic human supplies, appropriate medical care, education and drinking water,” the refugee project said in the report. Migrants do not have access to unconquered calls with lawyers and I cannot honestly talk about bad conditions on a naval basis, the report said.

How long people have been holding at the Guantanamo Bay. The New York Times reported in 2024 that the families were there for more than six months. But in one case someone held for almost four years.

What is different in the approach of Trump administration?

Trump’s unprecedented precedent proposal Asks legal questions.

The US never sent people arrested or detained in the United States in Guantanamo, the Foreign Relations Council, a non -partisan research center for foreign policy, on February 4th.

According to Federal Law, people in the USA accused of violating civic immigration have more rights than people who intercepted at sea, said Hannah Flamm, a temporary high director of politics on the international help of refugees.

People who were on American soil “have rights and protections, even if they were sent to Guantanamo. Will this right be respected,” she said.

It is not clear how the procedure of migrants will follow, as Noem assured.

“The US government deliberately uses Guantanamo in the hope of avoiding the public control and the eyes of the public, which makes the object mature for abuse,” Flamm said.

The American Union of Civic Freedom wrote the Trump administration of the letter 7. February seeking access to migrants sent to the Guantanamo Bay, so they have “access to a legal advisor, so the advocates and the public can understand the conditions under which the Government is detained.”

In her interview with CNN on February 9, Noem said that she and Trump was “comfortable” that she was legal to bring migrants who were already on American soil on the island.

It is unclear how many migrants will be in the Guantanamo Bay under Trump’s plan.

Noem and Defense Minister Peta Hegsetth They said that the detention of migrants at the Guantanamo Bay would be temporarily while waiting for deportation. On CNN, Noem said, “My goal is that people have not been in these facilities for weeks and months,” although it would not exclude a longer stay if other countries do not accept them.

On January 29, Trump said that he intended to keep Guantanamo’s “worst crimes of illegal foreigners who threatened the American people. Some of them are so bad that we don’t even believe in their countries to hold them because we do not want to return.”

It is unclear what will happen if the Government tries to delay migrants sent to the Guantanamo Bay for an indefinite period of time.

People cannot be unlimited in the immigration detention in the United States, the United States Supreme Court ruled in 2001. So, immigrants who cannot be deported because their home countries will not accept flights for deportation.

Another shift from Previous use of Guantanamo Bay For immigration custody, the place where migrants will be held under Trump’s administration.

Hegsetth said that migrants sent to the Guantanamo Bay will be detained separately from the camp in which the suspects for terrorism are kept. He said he would be detained at the Migrants Operational Center.

10 Migrants on the first flight from the USA Gvantanamo Bay is housed in one of the detention centers in which there were previously held suspects for terrorism, not at the Operational Center of Migrants. The migrants’ building are not the same building where the remaining is left 15 war detainees They are held, the Ministry of Defense said.

Prisoners in the war of war have been held at the Guantanamo Bay for decades.