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President Donald Trump is using Guantanamo prison to detain migrants with “serious” criminal histories, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Trump signaled his plans to open Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrant early on in his second administration.
CBS News is now reporting, per DHS, that Trump is using the Guantanamo Bay detention center, known as Gitmo, to house migrants from “26 countries and six different continents, including detainees with serious criminal convictions.”
The criminal histories of some of these detainees are extensive and include numerous crimes against children — from sexual offenses to child pornography — as well as kidnapping, robbery, and homicide. DHS released over two dozen examples of what they described as the “high-threat, violent criminal illegal aliens” at the facility, emphasizing that they are “convicted criminals with final orders of removal from an immigration judge.”
A partial list can be seen below: --->READ MORE HERE
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Tuesday that foreign detainees from 26 countries are being held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, including many with criminal convictions.
The department shared the full list of nationalities of people being held at the base, as well as the identities and criminal histories of more than two dozen people, confirming reporting from CBS News last week that officials had sent detainees from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean to the base, the network reported Tuesday.
The Guantanamo Bay base initially had been used to house mainly Spanish-speaking, Latin American migrants as they waited to be deported.
The current detainees are from Brazil, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Russia, Somalia, St. Kitts-Nevis, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Vietnam, the DHS list confirms.
Meanwhile, the records of those being deported for criminal offenses include convictions for robbery, homicide, child pornography, kidnapping, assault with a weapon, drug smuggling, and sexual offenses, including those involving children.
The DHS said those detainees are facing final deportation orders and are considered to be "high risk." They are being detained at Camp IV, the post-9/11 complex that also holds a dozen war-on-terror detainees, but are in a separate part of the facility.
The other detainees without serious criminal records, or any record at all, are deemed "low risk" and are at the Migrant Operations Center, a barracks-like facility.
Out of the 72 immigration detainees at Guantanamo Bay, 58 are classified as high-risk and 14 fall in the low-risk category, two U.S. officials told CBS News, speaking on the condition of anonymity. --->READ MORE HERE
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