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(NewsNation) — The Trump medication is not conscionable detaining convulsive pack members and high-threat migrants successful Guantanamo Bay, they are besides holding nonviolent migrants successful the high-security facility, NewsNation has learned.
A elder Department of Homeland Security authoritative confirmed to NewsNation that “low risk” migrants are being held astatine the installation and that each person a last deportation order.
“All these individuals committed a transgression by entering the United States illegally,” the authoritative said.
High hazard detainees, including criminals, are being detained successful the base's maximum-security prison, portion different migrants with last removal orders are being held successful the Migrant Operations Center.
The president successful precocious January signed a memo directing the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to hole a 30,000-person migrant installation astatine Guantánamo Bay, a installation successful Cuba that has been utilized to location subject prisoners, including respective al Qaeda operatives linked to the 9/11 attacks.
Trump initially said it would location lone the "worst" migrants and "provide further detention abstraction for precocious precedence transgression aliens."
Since announcing the move, the Pentagon has transported little than 100 detainees to Guantanamo Bay and determination person been 8 flights successful 8 days, according to the official.
While Defense Department and Homeland Security officials person worked to enactment the infrastructure successful spot to conscionable the demands of Trump’s order, officials person been little wide astir the semipermanent prospects of utilizing Guantánamo Bay arsenic a migrant facility.
