Ten members of the Venezuelan Criminal Banda of Aragua were sent to the American Base of Guantanamo, in Cuba, the White House) reported on Wednesday. “The first flights arrived at Guantanamo Bay yesterday afternoon from the passage,” Texas, and “there were ten members of the Transnational Train of Aragua,” said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt at a press conference.
A través de un comunicado, en Pentágono detalló que los detenidos “están actualmente alojados en instalaciones de detención (que estaban) vacías”, sin detallar de qué delitos se les acusa. Su detención en la isla será “temporal”, señaló el escrito, until they can “be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination.”
Leavitt said that immigration authorities are giving “priority” to the arrests of “violent criminals.” The Trump executive has undertaken a campaign against the more than 11 million undocumented migrants in the country, calling them “criminals” and promising to carry out the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States.
8,000 detainees are already
Since Donald Trump assumed the position on January 20, more than 8,000 migrants were arrested in an irregular situation, of which 461 has been released for different reasons, explained the spokeswoman for the White House. “It is less than 6 percent and there are reasons” such as “the lack of a significant probability of expulsion in the future,” the shortage of detention facilities and “other serious medical conditions,” he said.
“But none of them have definitive deportation orders” and many “are probably challenging their immigration status,” said the spokeswoman.
Last Wednesday, by signing the memorandum to expand the ability of the Migrant Center in Guantanamo, Trump said the measure seeks to “stop the worst illegal criminal immigrants who represent a threat to the American people.” This prison was inaugurated in 2002 as part of the “war on terrorism” declared after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since then it has been used to retain indefinitely to prisoners captured during wars and other operations.
DZC (EFE, AFP)
