Lawsuit challenges transport of immigrant detainees to Guantánamo
New York Amsterdam News|March 13, 2025
The Trump administration's continued deportation of immigrants to the U.S. naval base and detention center on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is being challenged by a group of civil rights organizations.
KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO
Lawsuit challenges transport of immigrant detainees to Guantánamo

Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), and ACLU of the District of Columbia filed an emergency motion to halt the transfer of 10 immigrants who had been given their final deportation orders to Guantánamo Bay. The groups argue that, when immigrants were first detained at Guantánamo Bay, their legal representatives and family members had minimal to no contact with them: they were held "incommunicado." Now, because of legal challenges, those who are detained on Guantánamo have some access to phone use, and there is better record-keeping detailing whether they are on the island.

The Trump administration contends that it is detaining criminally dangerous immigrants on Guantánamo who came to the U.S. and stayed here illegally. In February, the Department of Defense used military aircraft to fly what it termed “high-threat illegal alien” members of the Venezuelan “Tren de Aragua” gang to Cuba. Pictures emerged of these deportees as they were shackled and led aboard a C-17 aircraft.

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