Lawyers in court to block Trump administration to send 10 migrants to Guantanamo Gulf

Civil rights lawyers sued the Trump administration on Saturday to prevent the transfer of 10 retained migrants to the US in Guantanamo, Cuba, their second legal challenge in less than a month over Plans for holding up to 30,000 immigrants there for deportation.

The last federal process so far is applied to only 10 men who are facing the transfer to the naval base in Cuba, and their lawyers have said that the administration will not announce to who will be transferred or when. That a process The same lawyers submitted earlier this month for access to migrants already detained there, the latest case was deposited in Washington and is supported by the American Union of Civil Liberties.

At least 50 migrants have already been transferred to the Gulf of Guantanamo, and civil rights lawyers believe that the number could be about 200. They said it is the first time in US history that the Government has detained non-citizens for civil immigration accusations there. For decades, the naval base has been used mainly to retain foreigners associated with the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Trump said that Guantanamo Gulf, also known as “Gitmo”, has space for up to 30,000 immigrants living in the US and intends to To send “the worst” or “criminal aliens” with high risk there. The administration has not published specific information about who is transferred, so it is not clear what crimes are accused of committing in the US and if they were convicted in court or just accused or arrested.

“The purpose of this second trial in Guantanamo is to prevent more people from being illegally sent to this notorious prison, where it has now been revealed that the conditions are inhuman,” said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer and a lawyer led in case.

The 10 men are of nations, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Venezuela, and their lawyers say there are neither high risk, nor band members. In an executive order of January 29, the extension of operations at Guantanamo Bay, Trump said that one of his goals is “disassembling criminal cards”.

Their lawyers have described their latest process as an emergency registration to stop imminent transfers and challenge the Trump administration plans. They claim that transfers violate men’s right to a proper legal process, guaranteed by the fifth amendment to the US Constitution

The last process also argues that the federal law of immigration prohibits the transfer of non-Cuban migrants in the US to the Gulf of Guantanamo and that the US government does not have the authority to keep people outside its territory, and the naval base remains part of CUBA Legal. Transfers are also described as arbitrary.

Men’s lawyers claim that many of the people who have been sent to Guantanamo bay have no serious criminal records or even any criminal record. Their first trial, submitted on February 12, said that the migrants sent to the naval base “actually disappeared into a black box” and could not contact the lawyers or the family. The US Security Department, one of the agencies sent to court, said they can reach lawyers.

In another separate federal trial, submitted to New Mexico, a federal judge on February 9 blocked the transfer Out of three immigrants from Venezuela who took place in that state in the Gulf of Guantanamo. Their lawyers said they were falsely accused of being members of the band.

The Guantanamo migrants detention center works separately from the detention center of the American army and in the courtrooms for foreigners held under President George W. Bush during what Bush called the war against terror. He held almost 800 people once, but the number dropped to 15, including 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who was assigned to Guantanamo when he was at work, called him a “perfect place” to host migrants, and Trump described the naval base as “a heavy place to exit.”

A United Nations Investigator Who visited the Center for Military Detention in 2023 said that the conditions were improved, but the military prisoners were still facing constant supervision, forced removal from their cells and the unfair use of restrictions, resulting “continuous raw, inhuman and degrading treatment in accordance with international law”. The US said that he did not agree “in significant respect” with her report.