Trump orders migrant detentions at Guantanamo as Cuba attacks ‘act of brutality’ – live updates

Will Grant
Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent

The US naval base at Guantanamo Bay has been partly used for immigration functions by the American authorities for many years, in what is called the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Middle or GMOC.

Principally, it has housed migrants picked up at sea and was just lately the topic of a Freedom of Info request by the American Civil Liberties Union for the disclosure of information in regards to the website.

The Biden Administration responded that GMOC “just isn’t a detention facility and not one of the migrants there are detained”.

What differs, then, with the Trump Administrations plans is that the centre will very a lot be meant as a detention facility.

President Trump has stated 30,000 beds might be out there to accommodate “the worst” undocumented immigrants – in reference to these with prison information – saying his administration “didn’t belief” their nations of origin to carry them.

It has provoked an anticipated outcry from the Cuban authorities which has denounced the existence of a US naval base on the island ever since Fidel Castro swept to energy in 1959.

The Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, referred to as Trump’s transfer “an act of brutality” saying the bottom itself was on “illegally occupied territory”.

The Cuban International Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, stated the step “exhibits contempt for the human situation and worldwide legislation”.

Nonetheless, none of these feedback will fear the Trump Administration a lot.

With the State Division now headed by the previous Florida Senator, Marco Rubio, whose household left Cuba within the Fifties, the actual fact they’ve infected tensions with Havana within the course of will likely be seen by him as merely an added bonus.

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