Submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union Litigation This week, they misled and downplayed the Trump administration the “threat” status of illegal aliens detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On Wednesday, the ACLU issued an a press release It announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of several immigration advocacy groups. Yukaris Carolina Gomez Lugo, the sister of one detainee, also joined the lawsuit. Her brother has been accused of being a member of the violent Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua. Other families of detainees are also part of the legal action.
“They should change their names.”
The ACLU said the lawsuit was intended to allow immigration advocacy groups to meet to provide legal assistance to meet with people in detention.” It claimed that the Trump administration had “hur.”[ied] Immigrants are immigrants to remote islands that are cut off from lawyers, their families and other parts of the world. ”
The lawsuit estimates that the administration has detained more than 50 illegal aliens on Gitmo since February 4th. It allegedly attempted to “block access to lawyers for immigrant detainees.”
“For the first time in US history, the federal government has moved non-citizens who have been arrested and detained in the United States for accusations of civil immigration at the Navy Bureau in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” “And keeping them immobilized without access to lawyers, family or the outside world.”
However, according to A press release Those who have been detained by Gitmo from the Department of Defense are “priority criminals.” The DOD calls individuals a “threat” and says they are “now housed in vacant detention facilities.”
Furthermore, the use of the litigation with the phrase “first in US history” is equally misleading. Former President George W. Bush and invoice Clinton He also detained an illegal Gitmo alien.
In response to the lawsuit, Trump's Department of Homeland Security not only denied the ACLU's claims, but also scathed the organization.
A DHS official said New York Post“We have a telephone usage system to contact our lawyers.”
According to the DHS, detainees have the ability to contact legal representatives.
“If the American Civil Liberties Union cares more about extremely dangerous criminal foreigners, including murderers about American citizens and members of vicious gangs, they should change their names,” said DHS officials. said.
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