Defense Minister Beit Higseth visited the US Navy base in Guantenamo Bay in Cuba on Tuesday to monitor migrant detention operations in the Trump administration there, and obtain a briefing on prison reservations at Al Qaeda in the war against terrorism.
Mr. Higseth arrived at the base with a former Fox News colleague, Laura Ingharam, about an hour ago A military flight from El Passo, Texas She landed there, as he was carrying nine migrants who decided to the Ministry of Internal Security in Guantenamo pending the deportation.
Pentagon presented Few details On the trip. But Mrs. Ingharaham She posted a picture of herself Mr. Higseth stands on the roof of a building in the aircraft landing, where they were briefed by the army general of the stars responsible for the operation. The charging plane from Texas can be seen in the background.
Mr. Higseth occupied a lieutenant at the army in Guantanamo in 2004-5, then visited the base in 2016, when he joined Fox News on the news media tour in distant prison and I mentioned About life there.
He spoke with pride in his deployment at al -Qaeda, where he held the position of leader of a family of infantry unit in the National Guard in New Jersey. The unit conducted security operations, when it was then a huge operation for about 2,600 American forces and more than 600 detainees, spread through the sprawling prison area on a trick overlooking the Caribbean.
As of Tuesday, he was visiting a very discounted process. The Ministry of Defense is now kept 15 foreign men there is a war on terrorism In a facility called CAMP 5, including six men accused in deaths Al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001 On USS Cole on October 12, 2000.
In the vicinity, in a prison building called CAMP 6, on Tuesday, internal security and defense departments included 26 men that the Trump administration was dedicated to deportation. Among them were seven men from Honduras, four of Colombia, three from El Salvador, two of Guatemala and one of Ecuador, 23 to 62, according to a document in the New York Times.
Nine immigrants arrived on Tuesday from El Paso, according to government officials, they spoke, provided that his identity was not disclosed because they were not identified.
It was Mr. Higseth excited About the migrant detention process, which began to maintain the Ice prisoners who were removed from the United States on February 4. So far, 178 other men, all of whom are Venezuelans, have been held in two facilities on the base.
On Tuesday, it is Publish a picture of himself lunch With members of the Joint Military Labor Squad that works to work the operation, a group of civilians and unified service members. He wrote on social media: “These warriors directly support the fear and deportation of illegal foreigners,” he wrote on social media. “We cannot thank them or their families enough.”
In 2021, in his appearance on Fox, Mr. Higseth expressed his regret that Guantanamo’s detention became “”Imprisonment“
He said: “I stumbled very early when the left -wing lawyers and other protection came,” adding: “It could have been a great place to interrogate quickly, try, as you know, were implementing, because we are in a war.”
The visit of Mr. Higseth comes at a time when civil freedom attorneys are pressuring to reach the Immigration Agency detainees.
