Trump administration sends first group of migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay

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CBS News reports that the U.S. government is moving quickly to implement President Trump’s order (and here) to turn facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base into an immigration detention center, sending the first group of migrant detainees there yesterday.  

CBS News reports that yesterday a plane carrying 10 migrant detainees departed the Fort Bliss Army base near the Texas border for Guantanamo Bay. Two U.S. government officials said the migrants were “high-threat” detainees who would be held in cells inside the naval base. “One of the officials said they were Venezuelan men with affiliations to Tren De Aragua, a gang that originated in Venezuela’s prisons.”

How might the migrants access legal representation?  Zoom or video conferencing?

Haitian migrants interdicted on the high seas were detained at Guantanamo in the 1990s.  For analysis of the legal and political issues arising from migrant detention in Guantanamo, click here.

KJ