The first American military aircraft to carry prisoners to his military prison is expected to depart within the next few hours US officials said. President Donald Trump’s government promotes the plan to transfer possibly tens of thousands of immigrants to Guantanamo prison located within the American military base in Cuba. CORVERSE The US president has stated that he wants the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to extend an immigrant detention facility to the American military base to accommodate more than 30,000 immigrants. “Today, the first flight from the US to the Gulf of Guantanamo with irregular immigrants is underway,” White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt told FOX Business. An official, speaking on condition not to be named, said today’s flight would carry about 12 immigrants. CORVERSE The air transport of migrants to Guantanamo is added to military flights that have already deported immigrants to Guatemala, Peru, Honduras and India. The Pentagon has stated that it plans to deport more than 5,000 immigrants held by US authorities in El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California. On 29 January Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Noem announced Donald Trump’s government plans to use Guantanamo’s military prison, in which individuals are held exclusively accused of terrorism, as an immigrant detention area. Pre-electionally, Donald Trump denounced the “invasion” of U.S. immigrants who “infect blood” and cause a wave of crime, but which is not proven by official statistics. Guantanamo prison was established in 2002 within the American military base in Cuba, as part of the “war against terrorism” declared by then-President George U. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Hundreds of people were detained there, including some members of Al-Qaeda, but the detention conditions and reported torture caused strong political confrontation. Democratic former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden expressed their intention to close it, but did not succeed. US to consider El Salvador’s offer U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the proposal of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Buquele, to be transferred to Salvadoran prisons as “dangerous criminals” from the US as “very generous”. Rubio said the US government should consider this offer. The head of American diplomacy met with Bukelle on Monday. In his post on the X platform the Salvadoran president then said he offered the US “the opportunity to outsource part of their prison system.” At the press conference given by Rubio from San Jose, Costa Rica, where he continues his tour, he also said that the US would cooperate with this country and provide her with FBI and DEA support in order to investigate drug trafficking circuits in the US.
Donald Trump begins his “dark plan” to use Guantanamo to keep immigrants
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