Washington – The senators who visited the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the Trump administration had a migration for deportation, called the Trump administration on Saturday
“Immediately stop this erroneous mission.”
The delegation of senators – four Democrats and an independent – said they were angry to go to Cuba on Friday for answers to the questions they have asked administration officials for months.
“After examining migrant relocation activities in Guantanamo Bay, we are indignant by the scale and waste of the abusive use of the Trump administration of our soldiers,” the senators wrote. “It is obvious that Guantanamo Bay is a probably illegal and certainly illogical place to hold immigrants.
Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) Said that his greatest dishes to remember were that the administration was not properly prepared for the operation and that the cost for taxpayers is “enormous”.
“It was in a way a ready to use all of this,” he said.
In an interview with Times, Padilla said that officials could not adequately explain why migrants should be detained in Guantanamo, not facilities in the United States.
The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Guantanamo is best known for having suspicious terrorists and the brain behind the September 11 attacks, but some of the migrants classified are classified as “low level” detainees.
“We asked several times, you wanted to tell me that in the 48 states of the continental United States, there is no space for (around 40 low-level prisoners)?” Padilla said, adding that he has problems with Trump’s detention and expulsion operations. “But even by recognizing this, there is a much more profitable way to do so than that.”
Padilla went to Guantanamo with Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the best democrat of the Armed Services Committee; Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the best democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee; Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, the best democrat of the internal security committee and government affairs; And Senator Angus King of Maine, main member of the Armed Services Committee.
The delegation was led by Peters. King, an independent caucus with democrats.
Padilla is a member of the Judicial Committee and chairs his immigration subcommittee.
Senators were informed by internal security officials, immigration and customs (ICE) and naval staff on Friday on Friday. They visited three sites: lower level prisoners, upper level prisoners and the last 15 suspicious foreign terrorists held in the September 11 attacks.
Eighty-seven migrants were detained in the establishment on Friday, mainly Latin American countries: 42 in a dormitory at the Operations Center migrant and 45 at Camp 6, on a distinct part of the base. Camp 6 is an average security military prison.
On March 11, the Trump administration carried out 40 migrants detained in Guantanamo in the United States, a few days before a hearing in a pair of proceedings contesting whether it is legal to hold detainees for civil immigration purposes.
A judge of the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, refused to prevent the administration from sending more migrants to Guantanamo. Subsequently, the administration began to send more migrants.
The Trump administration has largely described the migrants sent to Guantanamo as dangerous, although many had no criminal record in US officials have declared without evidence that some have links with the Venezuelan gang Tren in Aragua.
President Trump published a decree in January to extend the “full -capacity” migrant operations. He suggested that 30,000 migrants could be housed on the basis.
Among the senators’ issues on Friday, Padilla said, which the authorities do to comply with the minimum standards for the conditions of detention and what a set of standards they aim to comply with, such as those concerning navy or ice. There was no clear answer, he said.
“It still seemed to be a work in progress, because it is unique, in terms of ice mission in a foreign place,” he said. “This in itself is extremely worrying because there is no clear authority for everything they do in Guantanamo.”
Sometimes Padilla said, officials have given contradictory information. For example, he said that the answer to certain questions was “it depended on their conviction”. But Padilla stressed that some detainees had not been condemned for nothing and are detained according to an arrest or a charge.
Padilla said the officials continued to use the expression “the worst of the worst” to describe migrants.
“If they are all the worst, they should all be in the high-risk or violent category of offenders,” he said.
Padilla said those responsible “did everything they could” to prevent visitors from talking with prisoners. He said he managed to ask some detainees detained in the low level area when they arrived, and they told him on Thursday.
Inmates had rare access to phone calls. Padilla said the officials have recognized the need and have planned that the equipment will be shipped to accommodate private lawyer calls. He took this as a sign of the lack of preparation.
Padilla said that he feared that some detainees will be expelled in their country of origin and would face persecution or death due to the lack of access to advice.
Some officials expressed their frustration in the face of the constantly evolving operational instructions, Padilla said. Military staff told him that they had received a short notice before being transferred to Guantanamo.
These movements leave short -term critical missions, said Padilla.
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