Press secretary says at least two deportation flights to Cuban base of undocumented immigrants ‘under way’

The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.

Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.

Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.

CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
    1542·
    20 hours ago

    The correct name is concentration camp. it is very important that people understand that this is a concentration camp.

    The term “concentration camp” and “internment camp” are used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, mortality rate, and architecture; their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law.[2] Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are also imprecisely referred to as “concentration camps”.[3]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

    the new death camps outside of Germany’s prewar borders could be kept secret from the German civil populace.[40]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

    The fact that this camp is being set up outside the jurisdiction of the rule of law makes it a concentration camp and makes it 100x worse than any other immigration prison

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Is Guantanamo considered “outside the rule of law”? Hopefully journalists will be allowed there to report freely in the treatment and conditions.

      • zeca@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        9·
        3 hours ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

        the U.S. Department of Justice claimed that habeas corpus—a legal recourse against unlawful detention—did not apply to Guantanamo Bay because it was outside of U.S. territory.

        The Bush administration maintained that it was not obliged to grant prisoners basic protections under the U.S. Constitution or the Geneva Conventions, since the former did not extend to foreign soil and the latter did not apply to “unlawful enemy combatants”. Various humanitarian and legal advocacy groups claimed that these policies were unconstitutional and violated international human rights law;[5][6] several landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions found that detainees had rights to due process and habeas corpus but were still subject to military tribunals, which remain controversial for allegedly lacking impartiality, independence, and judicial efficiency.[7][8]

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
        21·
        4 hours ago

        They absolutely should be allowed to. It is an American basd and the rights of the prisoners there must be upheld and monitored.