I thought they’d have to take some time to build the facilities but the Gitmo plan is already in process.
As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to the facility, according to two US officials and a person familiar with the planning.
On Tuesday, a military flight carrying migrants was headed to Guantanamo Bay, according to one of the officials. It was carrying around 10 migrants with criminal records, according to a Homeland Security official.
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The source familiar with the plan said questions like how long the migrants can legally be held there, and what their rights would be while detained, are still unanswered. It is also unclear whether the migrants will have any access to legal or social services while detained at the base.
Senior Trump officials have continued to tout the plan, casting it as a facility designed for criminals.
I don’t think laws really apply anymore, do they?
It could get even worse than Gitmo:
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours late Monday.
“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
They’ll take American citizens too? How generous! Now Trump can say that he’s emptying out our prisons just as he claims all the other countries are doing. I can’t see what would stop him.
CNN did a big story on the Salvadoran prisons pictured above. They are full of gang members after a crackdown by the new authoritarian regime that’s pretty much turned the country into a police state. They house about 80 prisoners to a cell and they get 30 minutes of group exercise a day.
You know that Trump will be thrilled to send people (including Americans) there and will want to watch videos of their punishing treatment late at night when he’s all alone.