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The US has sent the archetypal radical of migrants to Guantanamo Bay since President Donald Trump announced plans to grow migrant detention astatine the base, officials say.
A little connection from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the detainees were portion of the Tren de Aragua - a pack that originated successful Venezuela's prisons.
Ten detainees were flown from the Fort Bliss Army basal adjacent the Texas borderline to the US Navy basal successful Cuba connected Tuesday afternoon, the BBC's US spouse CBS News reported, citing aggregate US officials.
Last week, Trump ordered that an existing migrant detention installation astatine the basal beryllium expanded to clasp immoderate 30,000 people.
He said that would treble the US capableness to clasp undocumented migrants.
The determination is portion of Trump's effort to ace down connected undocumented migrants successful the US aft his instrumentality to office. He has promised arrests and wide deportations.
In Tuesday's little statement, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said: "President Donald Trump has been precise clear: Guantanamo Bay volition clasp the worst of the worst. That starts today."
The section published respective photographs of the detainees being taken connected committee the plane. Two officials told CBS that the radical was considered "high-threat".
Trump ordered that the Tren de Aragua beryllium designated arsenic a overseas violent organisation past month, arsenic portion of a directive targeting gangs and cartels.
The existing installation - Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) - has been utilized by some Republican and Democrat administrations to location migrants for decades. It has principally held migrants picked up astatine sea.
The expanded installation would beryllium tally by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Trump's borderline tsar Tom Homan said past week.
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Announcing his program past week that the installation beryllium expanded, Trump said: "Some of them (the migrants) are truthful atrocious we don't adjacent spot the countries to clasp them, due to the fact that we don't privation them coming back.
"So we're going to nonstop them to Guantanamo... it's a pugnacious spot to get out."
US subject unit travelled to Guantanamo Bay astatine the play to assemble tents to location migrants sent to the base, the New York Times and CNN reported.
Last year, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) accused the US authorities of secretly holding migrants astatine the basal successful "inhumane" conditions indefinitely.
The medication of Joe Biden, who was past president, responded that the determination was "not a detention installation and nary of the migrants determination are detained".
The GMOC is abstracted to the subject situation connected Guantanamo which has, for years, held detainees taken into US custody aft the 9/11 attacks.
The Cuban authorities rapidly condemned quality of the migration facility's enlargement past week, with President Miguel Díaz-Canel calling it "an enactment of brutality".
It has agelong considered Guantanamo Bay to beryllium "occupied" and has denounced the beingness of a US naval basal connected the land ever since Fidel Castro swept to powerfulness successful 1959.
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