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What Trump is doing in sending migrants to Guantánamo – a place of torture and death – makes me think that the author of the book about Trump being the antichrist is on to something,
tweeted the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff This is political theater and part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to paint immigrants as threats in the United States … and fan anti-immigrant sentiment,
said Eleanor Acer, the senior director for refugee protection at the advocacy group Human Rights First And the idea is to just scare the hell out of immigrant communities all around the United States too,
The whole thing is just absurd … Guantánamo is essentially designed to prevent outside scrutiny. Human rights abuses will be hidden, ... The Trump administration is thumbing its nose at the law and the rule of law.”
Trump’s order [sends] a clear message … Migrants and asylum seekers are being cast as the new terrorist threat, deserving to be discarded in an island prison, removed from legal and social services and supporters”.
Vincent Warren, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights legal advocacy group, said The president is 100% correct to use Guantánamo,
the Texas Republican Chip Roy told Fox News, with the channel’s reporter celebrating Trump’s “creative” and “innovative” idea The reopening of an international symbol of human rights abuses is a signal to Trumpists who believe the workers of the global south deserve the same punishment as supposed members of al-Qaida and the Islamic State,
This is unlawful, inhumane, and a clear violation of US and international law,
the ACLU said in a statement We will keep Laken's memory alive in our hearts forever,
In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory Cuba, of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention.”
It didn’t take long for the US base’s newest possible incarnation to draw the ire of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who wrote on X President Trump’s decision to use Guantánamo – global symbol and site of lawlessness, torture, and racism – to house immigrants should horrify us all,
said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement ICE has the highest detention standards in the industry,
Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets.”
She hailed the arrest of an undocumented migrant facing criminal charges on X, saying She was a light of warmth and kindness,
Trump said during a ceremony attended by Riley’s parents and sister News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine and anti-industry – I am neither. I am pro-safety,
he told the Senate Finance Committee I believe that vaccines play a critical role in healthcare,
Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back,
The Trump administration may find the symbolism of sending migrants to Guantanamo darkly appealing; its practical result would be more injustice, waste and self-inflicted loss of credibility,
At one point in late 1994, the migrant population of the naval station approached 45,000,
a CRS report dated August 2022 said Housing accused terrorists at Guantanamo has been a debacle. For the past 20 years, the U.S. government has locked up people it never even accused of taking action against the United States while continually failing to try those credibly charged with serious crimes,