In this photo examined by American military officials, the building of the military commissions office used for the periodic hearings of the examination committee was in 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
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A federal New Mexico court preventively prevented the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan men to Guantanamo Bay. This is the first legal obstacle launched on the Trump administration because it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention center on the naval base near Cuba.
Three Venezuelans men in the care of federal immigration officials to New Mexico submitted a motion asking for a temporary prohibition prescription to block their transfer to Guantanamo Bay because they “adapt precisely” to people who already had been transferred and feared that such a transfer is imminent, according to court documents.
New Mexico judge Kenneth Gonzales approved his request on Sunday evening.
Trump’s plan to send 30,000 migrants to the American naval base of Guantanamo Bay, facilitated by a memo, is likely to deal with additional legal, logistical and political challenges.
The United States made the first migrants in temporary accommodation there last week, and US officials said they would be held separately from the American military prison, which houses foreign terrorists, including the presumed brain of September 11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The Department of Internal Security and the Application of Immigration and Customs did not respond to requests for comments on the temporary prohibition order.
The order of new-mexic is limited to the three men and does not prevent other people from being transferred to the Guantanamo facilities.
Immigration lawyers say that the distance from people on the American continent can limit legal access and regular procedure.
“Send immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo and keep them below access to the Council or to the outside world opens up a new shameful chapter in the history of this notorious prison,” said Lee Genernt, Deputy Director of the Project From immigrants’ rights to civil civil liberties Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. The ACLU wrote on Friday to the heads of federal agencies responsible for the supervision of transfers, asking for more information.
“It is illegal for our government to use Guantánamo as a legal black hole, but that is exactly what the Trump administration does,” said Genernt.
Internal security secretary Kristi Noem, who visited the base last week, said the United States only wanted to hold people on the basis for a short period before being sent to another country.
“My goal is that people are not in these installations for weeks and months. My goal is that there is a short -term stay, they are able to incarcerate them, take them, follow the process And to bring them back to their country, “Noem said on CNN Interior policy Sunday. But she added that she would not exclude the possibility that some people would remain at the base for weeks or even months.
