As part of the government’s plan to arrest illegal immigrants into the United States, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily slowed a Colombian national’s travel to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp for three suspected Tren de Aragua people.
The three Venezuelan nationals ‘ attorneys filed a legal briefing, contending that the Cuban people detained in the El Paso region and charged with falsely affidaviting the Tren de Aragua gang “fit the report of those the management has prioritized for incarceration in Guantánamo.”
According to court documents, the three Venezuelan nationals, identified as Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Jose Rivas Gonzales, and Abrahan Josue Barrios Morales, have been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) custody in New Mexico since late 2023.
According to Fox News, lawyers requested a temporary restraining order from the Trump administration to prevent them from flying to Guantanamo Bay, arguing that” the bare doubt the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and lawyers exposure is enough to accept the humble order.”
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On Sunday, Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary restraining order, creating,” Considering the confusion surrounding authority, the judge determines it is necessary to compel the transfer of petition to Guantánamo Bay”. Gonzalez claimed that it was necessary to stop the Trump administration from transporting the three Venezuelan nationals to Guantanamo Bay in order to “accomplish the ends of justice entrusted to this court.”
The deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants ‘ Rights Project, Lee Gelernt, claimed in a statement obtained by NPR that “holding immigrants incommunicado without access to counsel or the outside world opens a new shameful chapter in the history of this notorious prison.”
The” first flights” of illegal immigrants being sent to Guantanamo Bay were” under way,” according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt last week. The president signed an executive order instructing the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to begin “preparing the 30, 000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay” for “high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”
