Migrant rights groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Saturday, in the hope of stopping the transfer of migrants from the United States to the Gulf of Guantanamo, according to the lawsuit filed by multiple legal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union.
Legal groups filed the lawsuit in Washington, DC, the Federal Court on behalf of 10 immigrants in the reservation of immigration in the United States and who say they are “imminent danger” in its transfer to the American detention camp in Cuba without legal authority. The lawsuit claims that the transportation operations are “arbitrary and volatile” and violated the federal law and the American constitution, citing the Law of Administrative Procedures and Fifth Amendment.
Among the individuals who are at risk of transportation and detention in Guantanamo are seven Venezuelan citizens, one Afghan citizen, one Pakistani citizen and a Bangladesh citizen.
“They all have final orders for removal and May [be] It was transferred at any time, which exposes them to the risk of immediate harm, including the refusal to reach the outside world and the possibility that they are subjected to horrific and punitive conditions in Guantanamo.
In the lawsuit, the groups said that they do not challenge the authority of the administration “detention of individuals on the American soil or remove it directly to their mother country or another legal country,” but “the unprecedented and illegal government’s decision to transfer them and detain them in Guantanamo.”
The groups added, “It was not previously that the federal government transferred non -citizens who were arrested and detained in the United States on charges of civil immigration to Guantanamo. There is no legitimate reason to do so now. The government has a wide detention ability within the United States, which is much less expensive and does not constitute any of the logistical obstacles associated with the people detained in Guantanamo.”
Lee Gield, the main lawyer in the case, and deputy director of the immigrant rights project in the American Civil Liberties Union, pointed out this step as a “play”.
“Sending migrants to a distance imprisonment is not only illegal and unprecedented, but it is illogical given the additional cost and logistical complications. Gilrrent said in a statement,” Ultimately revolves around the play. “
According to ACLU, the ten individuals are not members of the gang and are not “high -risk -risk foreigners”, which is the language in the heart of President Donald Trump’s executives who allow migrants to be transferred to Guantanamo.
The government did not make any notice of the date of the occurrence of transportation operations or who will be transferred. But some of these men have already threatened to move to Guantanamo.
The groups added in the deposit that “the government refused to make a notice of transfers to Guantanamo, so that it could take place at any moment,” added groups in the deposit.
Last month, the groups filed a lawsuit against the government on behalf of the detained family members and groups who provide legal services to immigration, claiming that the government had thwarted “access to the lawyer of the migrant detainees” who were transferred from the United States and were detained in Guantanamo, according to the complaint.
In response to the lawsuit, the administration revealed that it had detained 178 migrants from Venezuela in the Gulf of Guantanamo. A senior administration official told NBC News last month All detainees have been cleared there from the facility. More than 170 Venezuelan immigrants were deported and one of them was detained in the United States shortly after the administration began migrants in housing in the facility.
“Nothing in American law permits ICE by detaining people in foreign countries, but this seems not concern for the Trump administration,” Arthur Spitzer, the chief adviser to the Civil Liberties Union in Colombia, said in a statement. “For an administration that was promoting the supposed efficiency of taxpayers, President Trump is eager to waste money on unnecessary and illegal abuse of migrants.”
