Donald Trump’s government sent Tuesday (04.02.2025) the first flight with migrants arrested in US territory towards a detention center in the Guantanamo military base (Cuba).
“We will not allow the United States to be a landfill of illegal criminals of nations around the world,” Trump said Tuesday morning in statements to the Fox News chain.
In a military plane, the group of 10 migrants – of which nationality is still unknown – left today from the Fort Bliss military base, in El Paso (Texas), American media reported.
According to the CNN chain, they all had some type of criminal record.
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.
In their first weeks in power, the authorities have arrested more than 3,000 people throughout the country, a figure away from the “massive” raids that Trump promised to make.
The president ordered to expand the ability to detention in the Guantanamo Naval Base to house more than 30,000 people and the Pentagon has already deployed more than 150 military for this task.
Among the military deployed are Marina and other military in the southern command of the United States, in charge of Latin America.
Government seeks to expand Guantanamo capacity
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.”
Under American law, living in the country without authorization or legal status is not a criminal foul but civil. Therefore, it is false that undocumented people have in themselves a “criminal history”, as the current government has assured.
Crossing the border without inspection -Codified as’ improper income’- or trying to enter the US .
Multiple studies, including an investigation by Stanford University that analyzes data since the 1960s, have found that migrants are less likely to commit crimes or be convicted of a crime than people born in the United States.
MG (EFE, CNN)
