Homeland Security Department Christie Noem said he is confident the government is taking it to deport certain migrants from the US mainland to Guantanamo Bay.
In an interview with CNN about the “Confederation Status,” Dana Bash admitted that Guantanamo Bay was used to house previously exiled migrants, but after the prison illegally crossed the border He said he doesn't think he's detained immigrants who were detained in US soil. .
Asked if she was certain she had the legal authority to do so, Noem said, “I am, and the president is happy with it, and his jurist is.” .
“And obviously there will be people who will be critics that, but we believe we have all the legal rights and authority.
“The direction they flow and the agreement we have with their home country will continue to change that population,” she continued.
In late January, the president signed a memo directing the Department of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare 30,000 immigration facilities in Cuba. Attack on 9/11.
orderAlthough they did not outline a specific timeline for establishing the facility, the US military arrived at the base earlier this month to help build a tent near an existing immigration detention facility. And within a week of the executive order, the Pentagon confirmed that authorities had flew 10 migrants known as “high-threatening individuals” to the Cuban facility.
On Sunday, Noem said last week that “several planes” of immigrants had arrived at the facility.
