Judge sides with Trump administration allowing migrants to be held at Guantnamo [View all]
Source: Scripps News
Posted 9:15 PM, Mar 14, 2025
A federal judge in Washington ruled against plaintiffs who challenged the Trump administration’s ability to transfer immigrants who are not legally in the country to the U.S. military base in Cuba, known as Guantánamo Bay. Federal district court judge Carl John Nichols ruled that the plaintiffs did not meet the proper burden of proof to obtain two separate temporary restraining orders (TROs).
The first TRO would’ve required the Trump administration to give additional access to the military base to attorneys and the second TRO would’ve prevented the Trump administration from transferring additional undocumented immigrants to Guantánamo. Several immigrant rights groups filed two lawsuits. The first asserted that the U.S. government prevented attorneys from gaining access to and communicating with detainees who were being held at Guantánamo.
“By doing so, the U.S. government has prevented immigrants from accessing legal assistance to understand their rights and to challenge their transfer and detention or conditions of confinement at Guantánamo,” attorneys wrote in their complaint. Although, by the time of Friday’s hearing, both sides acknowledged that accommodations had been made to allow attorneys to connect with clients if and when detainees are transferred to Guantánamo.
Attorneys also wanted Judge Nichols to allow attorneys to visit clients who were being detained at Guantanamo, but the court countered that there could be logistical hurdles in allowing attorneys to physically visit detainees on the military base. But by the time of Friday’s hearing, the U.S. government had already removed all detainees who were transferred from the United States away from the base. It was revealed in court Friday that all but one of the detainees were transferred back to their home countries.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/judge-sides-with-trump-administration-allowing-migrants-to-be-held-at-guantanamo
This is pretty much moot now as it was acknowledged that this was a wasteful $16 million fiasco - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143416756
(I won't rule out the fascists doing any later attempts to create a concentration camp there in the future)
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