Caribbean nationals are amongst dozens of overseas residents at present being detained on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, based on the US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS).
The detainees hail from greater than two dozen nations, together with Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Brazil, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Russia, Somalia, the UK, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
In an announcement, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, mentioned the detention of overseas nationals with prison information at Guantanamo Bay is a part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem to take away “prison unlawful aliens” from the U.S.
“The detention of foreigners with prison information at Guantanamo Bay reveals that President Donald Trump and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem are utilizing ‘each device out there to get prison unlawful aliens off our streets and out of our nation,’” McLaughlin mentioned.
U.S. media reviews point out that the transfer is a part of an expanded initiative by the Trump administration to repurpose Guantanamo Bay as an immigration detention facility. The naval base initially held primarily Spanish-speaking Latin American migrants awaiting deportation however now homes people from all continents besides Antarctica.
DHS officers mentioned that detainees with prison information — together with convictions for murder, sexual offences (together with towards youngsters), youngster pornography, assault with a weapon, kidnapping, drug smuggling, and theft — are categorized as “high-risk” and held at Camp IV, a bit of the post-9/11 jail advanced that additionally accommodates a dozen detainees from the conflict on terror period, although in a separate space.
These thought-about “low-risk” — both with out prison information or with much less critical offences — are housed within the Migrant Operations Centre, a barracks-style facility on the bottom.
As of final week, there have been 72 immigration detainees at Guantanamo Bay: 58 categorized as high-risk and 14 as low-risk.
The administration has used controversial services to underscore its hardline immigration stance and to ship a message to undocumented migrants with critical prison convictions.
“Whether or not it’s CECOT, Alligator Alcatraz, Guantanamo Bay or one other detention facility, these harmful criminals won’t be allowed to terrorise US residents,” McLaughlin mentioned.
