“Immigrants’ rights advocates signed a letter in the present day urging the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), Division of Protection (DOD), and State Division to offer quick entry to the noncitizens transferred from immigration detention amenities in america and at present detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Their letter comes forward of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s deliberate go to to Guantánamo on Friday.
“Sending immigrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo and holding them incommunicado with out entry to counsel or the skin world opens a brand new shameful chapter within the historical past of this infamous jail,” mentioned Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Challenge on the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s illegal for our authorities to make use of Guantánamo as a authorized black gap, but that’s precisely what the Trump administration is doing.”
The letter was signed by greater than a dozen organizations, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, Individuals for Immigrant Justice, American Gateways, Amica Heart, Heart for Constitutional Rights, Haitian Bridge Alliance, Human Rights First, Worldwide Refugee Help Challenge, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Heart, Legal professionals’ Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Space, Nationwide Immigrant Justice Heart, Nationwide Immigration Regulation Heart, Refugee and Immigrant Heart for Training and Authorized Companies, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Texas Civil Rights Challenge.
“Questions abound concerning the authority for these transfers, which company could have custody of the noncitizens, the place they’d be housed, and the way the federal government will perform the difficult and costly logistics of this operation whereas respecting its authorized obligations and the rights of noncitizens within the authorities’s custody,” the letter states. Regardless of these unknowns, the federal government has already transferred ten Venezuelan noncitizens to Guantánamo, with stories of extra deportation flights en route.
Along with entry to the noncitizens not too long ago transferred and at present detained on the naval base, the immigrants’ rights teams are demanding info concerning:
- The immigration standing of the ten noncitizens detained there
- Who the federal government intends to switch to and detain at Guantánamo, together with what standards, authorized or in any other case, the administration is or will likely be utilizing to resolve who to switch and detain at Guantánamo
- Which authorities company has custody of the transferred noncitizens at Guantánamo
- What authority is the federal government invoking to switch noncitizens from america to Guantánamo and what authority the federal government is invoking to carry them at Guantánamo
- The size of time that the federal government will likely be holding these noncitizens at Guantánamo and plans for them after
“The federal government can not try to subvert the statutory and constitutional rights afforded to those noncitizens in america by transferring them to an offshore jail and holding them incommunicado with out entry to counsel or any technique of contact with the skin world,” the letter continues.
The letter is on the market right here: https://www.aclu.org/documents/urgent-request-for-access-to-and-information-regarding-immigrants-transferred-from-the-united-states-and-detained-at-guantanamo-bay“
