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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/1st-migrant-flight-heads-guantanamo-bay- carrying-worst/story?id=118456073

The first flight carrying "high-threat" migrants to Guantanamo Bay arrived Tuesday evening, part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The C-17 plane took off from El Paso, Texas, and landed landed at 7:20
p.m. Eastern time, according to U.S. Transportation Command.

The 10 people on the flight were suspected members of the Venezuelan gang,
Tren de Aragua, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The migrants, however, will not be co-located with existing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have the
primary guard of them.

"These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities," the Defense Department said in a Wednesday
statement, calling the detention of these migrants at Guantanamo Bay a "temporary measure." "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking
this measure to ensure the safe and secure detention of these individuals
until they can be transported to their country of origin or other
appropriate destination."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 29 directing the secretaries of the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to "expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay to full capacity" to house migrants without legal status
living in the United States. The Migrant Operations Center is separate
from the high-security prison facility that has been used to hold al Qaeda detainees.

"There's a lot of space to accommodate a lot of people," Trump said in the
Oval Office on Tuesday. "So we're going to use it.

"The migrants are rough, but we have some bad ones, too," he added. "I'd
like to get them out. It would be all subject to the laws of our land, and we're looking at that to see if we can."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the flights
carrying migrants to Guantanamo Bay were underway Tuesday morning, saying
on Fox News, "Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem are already delivering
on this promise to utilize that capacity at Gitmo for illegal criminals
who have broken our nation's immigration laws and then have further
committed heinous crimes against lawful American citizens here at home."

While Trump has said the United States will work to prepare the base to
hold 30,000 migrants awaiting processing to return to their home
countries, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Guantanamo
Bay's high-security prison facility could house "the worst of the worst" criminals being deported.

"Where are you going to put Tren de Aragua before you send them all the
way back?" Hegseth asked. "How about a maximum-security prison at
Guantanamo Bay, where we have the space?"

He called the base "the perfect place to provide for migrants who are
traveling out of our country," including for "hardened criminals."

"President @realdonaldtrump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will hold
the worst of the worst. That starts today," Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem posted on Tuesday. It is unclear what charges the migrants on
the plane face.

"Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantánamo Bay
will be an asset to us and the fact that we'll have the capacity to
continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence
of illegal immigrants there who have been detained -- we're just building
out some capacity," Noem told NBC News on Sunday. "We appreciate the partnership of the DoD in getting that up to the level that it needs to
get to in order to facilitate this repatriation of people back to their countries."

She added that it is "not the plan" to have migrants stay at Guantanamo
Bay indefinitely.

As of Monday, there were about 300 service members supporting the
immigrant holding operations at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, according to
U.S. Southern Command. U.S. officials told ABC News that as many as 200
more Marines are expected to arrive in waves.

The Defense Department posted that the troops are at Guantanamo Bay "to
prepare to expand the Migrant Operations Center" to house up to the 30,000 migrants temporarily, separate from the maximum-security prison.

"As we identify criminal illegals in our country, the military is leaning forward to help with moving them out to their home countries or someone
else in the interim," Hegseth said on Jan. 31. "Now if … they can't go somewhere right away, they can go to Guantanamo Bay."

Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, told ABC News' Phil Lipof on Jan. 29 that a "big challenge" of holding migrants at Guantanamo Bay is the large number Trump
has suggested.

"I don't know that they have the capacity for that," said Greenberg, who
noted that "in the old days and the '90s, I think they held 21,000 at the most."

She added that the base has long held refugees and migrants, including in
the Biden administration, though in much smaller numbers, and has
typically been used for those intercepted at sea rather than to hold
migrants flown in from the continental U.S.

However, Greenberg noted that the reports from those who have spent time
at Guantanamo Bay are "not good."

"There was a report released in September by the International Refugee Assistance Project, which sort of detailed the conditions that migrants
are held in currently at Guantanamo, which included unsanitary conditions, mistreatment, not to mention this sort of fuzzy legal status," she said.


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