Trump’s administration started flying detained illegal migrants from the USA Gvantanamo Bay in Cuba, White house Print secretary Caroline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday.
This move comes just a few days after the president Donald Trump He announced that he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare the facility to have about 30,000 “criminal illegal strangers” in the US military base.
“I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States are underway to the Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants,” Leavitt said.
Trump’s administration began to fly with imprisoned illegal migrants from the USA Gvantanamo Bay in Cuba, the print secretary of the White House of Caroline Leavitt said on Tuesday. Right: The Ministry of Defense’s footage shows Marine who boarded a plane on Sunday at an air base in North Carolina at the Guantanamo Bay. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images, left; Dod over AP, right)
“And thus, President Trump, Pete Hegsetth and Kristi Noah, already make this promise that they will use this capacity in Gitm for illegal criminals who violated the laws of the immigration of our country, and then further committed terrible crimes against legal American citizens at home.”
Leavitt said El Salvador agreed to repatrate his own citizens, as well as “illegal criminals from other nations” who would then be sent to his prisons.
“Venezuela also agreed with repatrial flights, and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals we found in the interior of our country.”
Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that one flight from Fort Bliss, Guantanamo, has about a dozen migrants on board, the publication reports, citing people familiar with the issue. He left the additional flight on Monday, the publication reports, citing one of these people.
As of today, it is understood that the object has enough beds to satisfy about 120 migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News’ Will Cain on “Will Cain Show” to be used by the Gnantanamo Bay to accommodate illegal immigrants, especially the worst of the worst.
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Noem said her department would make sure that resources were placed there to ensure that there was enough room to pull out criminal illegal foreigners from the USA
Trump signed a presidential memorandum last week to start putting a 30,000 beds process at your disposal in Guantanamo Home migrants which represent a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there will ensure that they do not return.
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even believe their countries keep them because we don’t want to come back,” Trump said. “We’ll send them to Guantanamo.”
He added, “It’s a difficult place to go out.”
The president said the move would bring the move closer to now -in closer to “eradicating the whip” of migrant crime in communities, once and for all.
The migrant plant in the base is separated from high -security US prison due to suspects for foreign terrorism – which has been used occasionally for decades, including the posture of Haićan and Cuban who have been picked up at sea.
Trump’s administration did not say how much it would cost to expand Guantanamo, which was founded in 2002 to delay foreign militants after September 11, 2001Attacks on the United States.
Illegal immigrants who boarded a plane in Guatemala last month. (White house)
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He also called on Congress to provide complete funds for complete and complete renovation of US borders and financial support to eliminate the record number of illegal foreigners.
The Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Trump’s move last week to send 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo “by the act of brutality”.
“In the rank of brutality, the new US government announces a prison on Guantanamo Navy baseplaced on illegally occupied territory [Cuba]Of the thousands of migrants who forcibly expel and will be placed in addition to the famous prison of torture and illegal detention, “he said in the translated post on X.
Reuters contributed to this report.
