Trump admin deports migrants from Guantanamo Bay
The Trump administration has removed migrants held at Guantánamo Bay.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE confirmed that 177 Venezuelan migrants were flown to Honduras for deportation back to Venezuela.
The administration has been pushing aggressive deportation policies, signing deals with Colombia, Venezuela, and El Salvador to take back deported migrants.
Last month, President Donald Trump ordered a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay for what he called “criminal illegal aliens.”
Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba has been infamous for housing terror suspects since 2002.
Trump has now begun using it to detain what he claims are high-risk migrants.
Flights carrying migrants to Guantánamo Bay began soon after Trump’s directive.
Within a week, the Pentagon confirmed that 10 “high-threat individuals” were flown there.
The Biden administration had sought to scale down operations at Guantánamo, but Trump’s latest moves mark a shift in policy.
Experts have raised concerns over the treatment and legal status of deported migrants.
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