Washington – Members of the Senate who visited the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the Trump administration moved hundreds of migrants to deport, on Saturday called the Trump administration to
“Immediately stop this misleading task.”
The delegation of the Senate members – four Democrats and one independent – said they were angry that they had to fly to Cuba on Friday to obtain answers to the questions they ask for administration officials for several months.
“After examining the transportation activities of migrants in Guantanamo Bay, we feel angry with the scope of the Trump administration’s misuse of our army,” he wrote the members of the Senate. ))
Senator Alex Padilla (Maddoria Deddown) said that his biggest fast food is that the administration was not properly preparing for the operation and that the cost of taxpayers is “enormous”.
“It was a kind of ready -made approach to this matter,” he said.
In an interview with the Times, Padilla said that officials could not explain the reason for the migrants’ detention sufficiently in Guantanamo, not some facilities in the United States.
The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Guantanamo is famous for preparing the suspected terrorists and the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, but some of the immigrants who were classified as “low -level”.
“We have asked again and again, you mean to tell me that it is through 48 states in the continental United States, there is no space for [around 40 low-level detainees]? Badilla said, adding that he had problems with Trump’s detention and deportation.
Badilla traveled to Guantanamo with Senator Jack Red from Rod Island, the best Democrat in the Armed Services Committee; Senator Jin Shaheen from New Hampshire, the largest Democrat at the Foreign Relations Committee; Senator Gary Peters from Michigan, the best democratic for the Internal Security and Government Affairs Committee; And the Mengeur Angus King of Maine, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee.
For the record:
12:55 pm March 29, 2025A previous version of this article said that the delegation of the Senate members who visit Guantanamo was headed by Senator Gary Peters (Mish). The group was chaired by Senator Jack Reed (Dr.
The delegation was led Reid. King, independent conferences, with Democrats.
Badilla is a member of the Judicial Committee and chairs the sub -committee for immigration.
Upon their arrival on Friday, the Senate members were briefed by internal security officials, agents of the ICE and Customs application (ICE) and naval employees. They visited three sites: lower -level detainees, the highest -level detainees, and the fifteenth news suspects who were detained in relation to the September 11 attacks.
Eighty -seven immigrants were held in the facility from Friday, especially from Latin American countries: 42 in a dormitory at the Migrant Operations Center and 45 in Camp 6, in a separate part of the base. Camp 6 is a medium security military prison.
On March 11, the Trump administration flew 40 immigrants held in Guantanamo to the United States, a few days before a court hearing in a pair of lawsuits that defy whether it is legal detention there for civil immigration purposes.
Judge of the Federal Provincial Court in Washington, DC, She refused a ban Management from sending more immigrants to Guantanamo. After that, the administration started Send more immigrants there.
The Trump administration has widely portrayed migrants who sent to Guantanamo as dangerous, although many had no criminal record in US officials without evidence that some had links to the Venezuelan gang Treen de Aragua.
President Trump released Executive In January to expand migrant operations center “to full capacity”. He suggested that there be 30,000 migrants on the base.
Among the questions of the Senate members on Friday, Badilla said, what the authorities are doing to meet the minimum standards for the conditions of detention, and any set of criteria that they aim to fulfill, such as those related to the navy or ice. He said there was no clear response.
“It seems that much is still a continuous work because this is unique, in that it is an ice mission in a foreign site,” he said. “This in itself is very related because there is no clear salad for anything they do in Guantanamo.”
Sometimes, Padilla said, officials gave contradictory information. For example, he said the answer to some questions is “that depends on their condemnation.” But Badilla indicated that some detainees did not condemn anything, and are kept on the basis of arrest or charge.
Badilla said officials continued to use the phrase “worst worst” to describe immigrants.
He said: “If they are the worst worst, they should all be in the category of high or violent risks.”
“They made everything they can,” Badilla told officials to prevent visitors from talking to the detainees. He said he managed to ask two detainees detained in the low -level area when they arrived, and told him on Thursday.
The detainees had a rare access to phone calls. Padilla said officials realized the need and planned to charge the equipment to accommodate private law calls. Take it as a sign of not preparing.
Badilla said he feared that some detainees will be deported to their country of origin and face persecution or death due to the lack of access to the lawyer.
Badilla said that some officials have expressed his frustration with the constantly advanced operational instructions. Military individuals told him that they had received a short notice before he was transferred to Guantanamo.
Badilla said these moves leave critical tasks with short employees.