Judge Prevents Trump From Sending The Worst Of The Worst To Gitmo

Another liberal judge has decided to take power into his own hands. On Sunday  U.S. District Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales temporarily halted the Trump administration’s plan to transfer three Venezuelan migrants from a detention facility in New Mexico to the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

The case was brought forward by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, reported Fox News. Attorneys representing the migrants contend that the government’s actions risk placing them in indefinite detention under uncertain legal conditions.

In the filing, the lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in New Mexico for a temporary restraining order to block the administration from flying them to the U.S. military base. The lawyers noted that “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction.”

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt separately said that flights carrying detained illegal immigrants had been sent to Guantánamo.

Immigrant rights groups sent a letter on Friday demanding access to people who are now being held at the U.S. naval station, arguing that the base should not be used as a “legal black hole.” Guantánamo has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including interrogation tactics.

The immigrants are being held in the Guantánamo detention camp that was set up for detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The immigrants are separated from the 15 detainees who were already there, including planners in the 2001 terrorist attack.

The three Venezuelan men had been detained near El Paso, Texas, and were reportedly flagged for deportation due to alleged connections with the Tren de Aragua gang, a criminal organization based in Venezuela that has taken over areas in Colorado, setting up torture chambers.

On January 29, President Trump issued a directive instructing the Homeland Security and Defense Departments to expand a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. The order called for increasing detention capacity to house “high-priority criminal aliens” who were unlawfully present in the United States. In response, the military deployed troops to the naval base to assist in expanding a tent city, reinforcing the administration’s broader immigration enforcement strategy. The decision to use Guantánamo—historically associated with the detention of terrorism suspects—underscored the administration’s intent to isolate certain migrants from the domestic legal system, The New York Times noted.

Since the directive, five military flights have transported undocumented immigrants to Guantánamo Bay, where they are currently housed in an unoccupied wing of the prison complex built under the Bush administration in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The practice of detaining migrants at Guantánamo is not unprecedented, as the U.S. government has long processed individuals intercepted at sea at the naval base. However, transferring people who were already on U.S. soil—where they are entitled to constitutional protections, despite their unlawful status—to a facility on Cuban territory represents a significant shift in policy. This move raises legal and human rights concerns, as it effectively places detainees beyond the immediate reach of U.S. courts, reinforcing broader debates over executive authority in immigration enforcement.

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