Trump moves to prepare Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 'criminal illegal aliens'

I will remember this next time the Medicare For All discussion comes up

 

No amount of money will make the most cowardly people on earth feel safe (the sort of people who cower in fear of a trans person doing normal things). We have courts and prisons for people who commit crimes, authoritarians put people who make them 'feel' unsafe in indefinite detention. Freedom isnt for the fearful.

 

There actually is a facility a Guantanamo that's been used to house undocumented immigrants mainly Haitians interdicted at sea. They usually stay there for a short period of time before being allowed to immigrate to the US or repatriated back to their home country. It's nowhere close to being able to accommodate 30,000 persons. The only way the facility can expanded to rapidly accommodate 30,000 detainees would be through the use of tents. Should be interesting to see what happens when a hurricane strikes a tent city.

 

Apples to apples…

 

Funny how they just walk right into it, huh?

 

Entirely predictable

Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads

 

The American Gulag is up and running

ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo (SCOOP)

Looks like the El Salvadoran philosophy of tattoos = gang member is the American way too

 

Since when? Just asking for FEMA, WHO, USAID and the CDC.

 

Arrest, relocation to a prison for an indefinite period, all without due process. How is this legal? If they're here illegally, deport them to their home country. If they commit a crime, arrest and try them in court. Guantanamo is some kind of holding pen, and as sure as I love me some picadillo and yellow rice, someone is making serious bank off this endeavor. Someone is also paying serious bank, and that would be the US taxpayer.

 

I would add that relocating them to Guantanamo effectively denies them access to legal representation. Rather than made on impulse by Trump the decision to relocate deportees to Guantanamo was most likely a well thought out strategy by Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, the architects of family separation during the first Trump Administration.

 

The Guantanamo Concentration Camp is now open for business...

 

surprise

'Inner turmoil' at ICE after Stephen Miller pal ousted and expenses explode: MSNBC - Raw Story

Speaking with the panel on MSNBC, Ainsley noted that ICE has been less than forthcoming on their efforts to round up undocumented immigrants and the numbers are down under Donald Trump compared to a the first month under President Joe Biden and that has the White House unhappy.

'"You've been reporting on for the last two months of this administration, the concern and the frustration that they're not doing enough fast enough," MSNBC host Ali Vitali asked her guest.

She also noted that more money is needed from Congress but that is a way off and the experiment of flying detainees to Guantanamo is falling apart.

"They can increase detention space and then they could arrest and deport more people. Of course, they tried that in Guantanamo Bay and now, as we've reported here, of course, they're rethinking that policy, because that turned out to be so expensive and not logistically possible either," she reported.

 

how many school lunches would this whole fiasco have bought

read, shoot, aim..and the senate sits by and allows him to keep reloading

Trump administration flies all remaining Guantánamo migrants back to U.S.

The Trump administration has removed all the migrants who were being held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba and flown them back to the United States, a Defense Department official said Wednesday.The 40 men have been transported to Louisiana, where there is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alexandria. It comes two weeks after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent another group of 48 migrants back to the same city from Guantánamo.

It is unclear why DHS routed the group of migrants back to the United States after the costly flights to the military base on Cuba. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the latest transfer. The defense official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations.

Both of the transfers back were on ICE Air, a less expensive option compared with the 17 military flights that have transported migrants to Guantánamo Bay since the Trump administration’s migrant operation began more than a month ago. A nonmilitary flight departed Guantánamo on Tuesday afternoon bound for Alexandria, according to flight trackers.

Nearly 300 migrants have been detained in Guantánamo since President Donald Trump took office in January. He ordered the U.S. government to begin holding detainees at the naval station as part of its plan to carry out the largest number of deportations in U.S. history.