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USAJusticeWatch

“…to fulfill a campaign pledge to deport millions…, the Trump administration has turned to tactics that have prompted…court challenges across the country & created an atmosphere of fear. …[ICE] agents have detained immigrants & shuttled them out of the country to #Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; #Panama; &, most recently, a dangerous prison in #ElSalvador without hearings, much less opportunities to communicate with #lawyers & relatives.” | ProPublica propublica.org/article/ice-war #law #lawfedi

ProPublicaUnder Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
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Nonilex

#DOJ returns to the idea that individual people can raise challenges under #HabeasCorpus.

[not exactly an option for people who are already in an El Salvadorian terrorist detention center!]

#Boasberg compares this to the old #Guantanamo cases, in which the courts were able to review whether a detainee was a member of Al Qaeda even if "they had never even set foot in the United States"

🧵 #law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #Judiciary #Trump #AbuseOfPower

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Milo Dide

We need every member of #Congress to hear loud and clear that we will not allow our country to take this shameful step backward. Tell Congress: Block funding for #Guantánamo #immigrant detention. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u

click.actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Don’t fund Trump’s Guantánamo Bay immigrant prison! Details are still emerging, but Trump and his allies are quickly working to revive Guantánamo’s shameful legacy with an unprecedented effort to imprison tens of thousands of people on the island. The New York Times reports that migrants are already being housed in the same prison that once held individuals accused of being members of Al Qaeda. The very idea that facilities synonymous with torture could be used to detain people fleeing incredible violence and political instability is abhorrent. The potential for trauma, corruption, and human rights violations is sky-high. This plan is more than cruel and likely illegal. It will also be extraordinarily expensive. Maintaining Guantánamo already costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and expanding it to imprison immigrants would likely cost taxpayers hundreds of millions more. Every lawmaker who claims to care about “fiscal responsibility” or “American values” should be outraged -- that’s why, with your help, we’ll make enough noise to turn outrage into action. Right now, as Congress puts the final touches on a bill to keep the government open past March 14, we have a critical and urgent opportunity to push them to deny ANY money to pay for immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay. To members of the 119th House of Representatives: Taxpayer dollars should not be used to expand or support immigrant detention. I urge you to take immediate action to refuse and block funding for the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay.
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Georgiann Baldino

"Trump administration empties #Guantánamo of #migrants, flies all back to US [suggested to LA] Further questions were referred to ICE, which did not respond to requests for comment from The Hill. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not comment....In the end, 195 tents were set up at the base but were never used."

The Hill yahoo.com/news/trump-administr
#USPolitics

Yahoo News · Trump administration empties Guantánamo of migrants, flies all back to USBy Ellen Mitchell
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin has abruptly cleared out a 2nd group of migrants it brought to the American military base at #Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returning to the #UnitedStates 40 men it had flown there in the past few weeks.

The move comes days before a Federal District Court judge in Washington is set to hear a major challenge to aspects of the policy.
A court filing described strip searches & the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants.

#immigration #law #HumanRights
nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/poli

Migrants arriving at Guantánamo Bay last month.
The New York Times · ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside FacilitiesBy Carol Rosenberg
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Scott Campbell

"We refuse to stay silent. We refuse to let others be swallowed by the same nightmare we endured. No one deserves to be thrown into a system built to erase them. We will not stop speaking. We will not stop fighting. We will not let Guantanamo’s horrors be repeated."

aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/

Al Jazeera · An open letter to Trump from former Guantanamo prisonersBy Mansoor Adayfi
#USpol#Guantánamo#immigration
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Luigi

The #Guantanamo Bay naval base is seen as a constant threat to Cuba’s sovereignty. Speakers at the rally pointed out that it has been used to plan coups and counter-revolutionary activity ever since 1959. Now that the current US government is taking an even more aggressive stance towards the island, there are fears that such activities at the base could intensify.

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Luigi

Cubans rallied in #Guantanamo to call for the removal of the US’ torture camp. Its naval base is located on land that was stolen from #cuba.
Local communist party leaders condemned Trump’s plans to deport migrants to the camp in violation of their human rights.

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DoomsdaysCW

#CharacteristicsOfFascism

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
"Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of 'need.' The people tend to look the other way or even approve of #torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of #prisoners.

Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine.

voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23
#USPol #Guantanamo #GuantanamoBay #AsylumSeekers #Migrants #ICE

Vox Populi · Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of FascismHistorian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He c…
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DoomsdaysCW

'The confinement is unbearable': #Migrants describe being held at #Guantanamo

Two of the 170 migrants recently held there describe the conditions on the base.

By Laura Romero, February 28, 2025

"When Jose, a Venezuelan migrant who was seeking #asylum in the United States, was awoken by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official at 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 8, he sensed he was being sent to #GuantanamoBay, home of the notorious U.S. #PrisonCamp that administration officials said would house the most violent 'worst of the worst' migrants apprehended on American soil.

"'When we got on the [military] plane, they put restraints on our hands, feet, and waist,' said Jose, who requested that his last name not be used out of fear of retribution. 'They searched us and then sat us in a chair, tying us to it and binding our feet together. We hoped it wouldn't be Guantanamo but in the end, that's where we ended up.'

"Jose is one of the more than 170 migrants who spent two weeks at the naval base before being sent to #Venezuela. He told ABC News that while he had a suspicion he was being sent to Guantanamo, he claims U.S. officials never told him and the other migrants where they were being sent.

"'Our minds were racing, thinking we were kidnapped, wondering who would get us out of there,' said Jose. 'Because no one tells you anything.'

"Jose told ABC News that he had traveled to Mexico's northern border to wait for an asylum appointment that he requested through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection app, prior to it being shut down by the #Trump administration. After three weeks of waiting and 'no food or a place to stay,' he decided to surrender to authorities at the U.S. southern border. He was detained at a detention center until he was transferred to Guantanamo."

Read more:
abcnews.go.com/US/confinement-
#USPol #ResistICE #ResistFascism #Fascism #Gitmo

ABC News · 'The confinement is unbearable': Migrants describe being held at GuantanamoBy Laura Romero
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Nonilex

That was the public message. But in response to a lawsuit, the #Trump admin later conceded that ~30% of the Venezuelan migrants sent to #Guantánamo were considered "low-threat illegal aliens," & did not have serious #criminal records.

The WH portrays its crackdown on illegal #immigration as an unqualified success. But critics worry that its high-profile removal flights & arrests…may be prioritizing #optics ahead of results, playing into longstanding misperceptions about immigrants & crime.
#law

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