“Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration at present to halt the switch of immigrants from the USA to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba underneath President Trump’s current order.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Heart for Constitutional Rights, Worldwide Refugee Help Challenge (IRAP), and ACLU of the District of Columbia filed the lawsuit on behalf of noncitizens in the USA susceptible to being transferred to Guantánamo.
Guantánamo is house to one of many world’s most infamous prisons, used when the U.S. authorities has tried to function in secret, with out accountability.
The teams filed a lawsuit final month on behalf of detainees’ relations and authorized service suppliers in search of entry to immigrants who have been transferred from the USA and held at Guantánamo. That lawsuit stays pending.
At this time’s lawsuit seeks to dam transfers to Guantánamo and requests emergency stays for 10 people in the USA who’re susceptible to being transferred with none authorized authority, in violation of federal legislation and the U.S. Structure.
“Sending immigrants to a distant abusive jail shouldn’t be solely unlawful and unprecedented, however illogical given the extra price and logistical problems. Finally that is about theatrics,” mentioned Lee Gelernt, lead counsel and deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Challenge.
“As we all know from many years of difficult indefinite detention there, Guantánamo has no goal apart from to mission lawlessness, domination, and cruelty,” mentioned Heart for Constitutional Rights Authorized Director Baher Azmy. “The courts, as they’ve earlier than, should once more at present reject the Trump administration’s newest illegal energy seize and put a cease to their plans for one more island detention camp.”
“By no means earlier than has the federal authorities moved immigrants held in the USA on civil immigration fees to Guantánamo. Persons are struggling underneath this new order and the Trump administration’s lawless actions won’t go unchallenged,” mentioned Eunice Cho, senior employees lawyer with the ACLU’s Nationwide Jail Challenge.
“For many years, Guantánamo has been the location of grave human rights abuses perpetrated by the U.S. authorities,” mentioned Kimberly Grano, employees lawyer, U.S. litigation, with the Worldwide Refugee Help Challenge (IRAP). “The Trump administration is exploiting this sordid historical past to ship the message that no cruelty is off limits in its assault on the rights and humanity of immigrants. This lawless mission to take folks from U.S. soil and detain them at this infamous offshore jail have to be stopped.”
“Nothing in U.S. legislation authorizes ICE to detain folks in international nations, however that seems to be of no concern to the Trump administration,” mentioned Arthur Spitzer, senior counsel on the ACLU of the District of Columbia. “For an administration that has been touting supposed effectivity with taxpayer {dollars}, President Trump appears desirous to waste cash on pointless and illegal mistreatment of immigrants.”
The criticism is right here: https://www.aclu.org/documents/complaint-escalona-v-noem
Emergency keep movement: https://www.aclu.org/documents/emergency-stay-motion
Memo in help of emergency keep movement: https://www.aclu.org/cases/escalona-v-noem?document=Memo-in-Support-of-Emergency-Stay-Motion “
