Two months after President Trump ordered his administration to prepare the US Navy base in Guantenamo Bay of up to 30,000 immigrants, about 400 immigrants were held there at a cost of taxpayers More than 40 million dollars.
At one point in February, the administration held 178 Veneers at Al Qaeda, the largest group that is kept there at one time. The operation is working on 1,000 government workers, and 900 of them are members of the American army and the remaining immigration service agents or contractors. This means the percentage of five employees for each immigrant in that group.
Senior Pentagon officials in Congress witnessed this week about the operation. Here are some things that we know yet.
Is Guantanamo ready for 30,000 immigrants?
No, to keep that many people there, the Pentagon will have to mobilize approximately 9,000 members of the service to Guantanamo to support the Immigration and Customs Committee that runs the operation, said Admiral Alvin Holse, President of the South American Command, to the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives this week.
“We did not ask us to do so,” he added.
As of last week, the Congress army told that the operation could retain a maximum of 180 migrants between two sites: a building called CAMP 6 where members of suspects were imprisoned at the base and subsidiary companies, and attached to the dormitory style elsewhere on the base called the migratory operations center.
Why are they using the base now?
Robert J. Salisis, a Pentagon official, in this way: ICE can currently include about 45,000 “illegal foreigners.” The Ministry of Internal Security has turned into the Pentagon when it needs more space for these types of detainees.
He said: “So I think we will continue to use Gitmo for some time so that ICE has a greater ability to accommodate illegal foreigners who threaten high.”
Who is taking place there now?
As of Friday, ICE included 45 migrants at the base, 36 of them in the prison facility, according to government officials, who spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed because the issue is considered sensitive.
Rafael said. Leonardo, Assistant Minister of Defense in the Pentagon to defend the Interior and the Affairs of the Hemisphere, said that all migrants who were sent to the Gulf of Guantenamo “are on final orders that are supposed to go to their final destination.”
Where do they send?
The administration sent immigrants directly from Guantenamo to Venezuela, El Salvador, and recently Nicaragua. On Thursday, the ice was returned 44 Nicaragua immigrants who were transferred to the naval base a few days ago.
They were transported on a rented flight that originated earlier in the day in Louisiana with about 100 other citizens from Nicaragua on board and handing them over to the airport in Mandoa, the capital, according to people familiar with the transport who did not declare it to discuss this. Most of the Nicaragua, who were held in Guantanamo, were at the location of detention, similar to the dormitory.
Less than half of the migrants who were sent to Guantanamo have been returned from February 4 to the United States. Some were deported to the countries that included Brazil and Colombia.
What about all these tents, the Minister of Internal Security toured?
They are empty.
The forces established 195 tents within days of Mr. Trump’s executive order, but they were not used at all to house immigrants. Members of Congress who toured the sites were informed.
Khayyam represents $ 3 million or more than 40 million dollars spent by the Ministry of Defense for the operation until March 12.
Security officials concluded that men who consider medium or high threat risks cannot be safely kept in tents that contain beds from 12 to 14 passengers because they lack the necessary security measures.
There was another concern whether the temporary housing would be safe during Hurricane season.
The Senator Jack Red of Rod Island, the largest Democrat at the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the tents “should not be proven in the first place”, describing the use of “more political drama than practical necessity.”
Francis Robilis He contributed to the reports from Miami. The sound you produce Adrian Hurst.
