“Intentional cruelty”: Trump administration accused of “disappearing” immigrants at Guantánamo

Trump administration I moved away At least one hundred Venezuelan immigrants to a bad reputation Guantenamo Naval Base CampThey are in a custody of the military guards and are completely isolated from the outside world – a flagrant violation of their civil rights, according to the lawyers and preachers who spoke to a salon.

In the interviews, these lawyers and activists said that the Trump administration authorities refused to grant their requests to reach the detainees or even identify them; The federal government also refuses to provide basic information, such as exactly the number of people who have been deported to Al -Jazeera prison since the president Donald Trump He takes office.

“It is an attempt to disappear these individuals to make it difficult to communicate with them, and it is difficult to monitor and monitor what is happening to them, as well as for the purpose of intimidating them,” c. Wales Dixon, a lawyer for the center for constitutional rights, told the salon.

A suit The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups recently provided the government of preventing immigrants detained in Guantanamo Bay from “reaching legal assistance to understand their rights and stabbing them and detaining them or the conditions of imprisonment.” The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all of them detained in Guantanamo, including three prisoners named – Tilso Ramon Gomez Lugo, Yokeer David Sequera and Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera – who have been recognized by their relatives in Pictures published by the government He boasted that the migrants arrived at the military prison camp.

After February 12 The deposit, the authorities allowed the plaintiffs to communicate with these three men, but no one else.

“We know that the government can allow us from a logistical point of view to be able to reach the detainees, and the fact that we have already spoken with three detainees reinforces this,” ACLU’s Lee Gilrrent, the main lawyer in the case, said the salon.

The prison in Guantenamo, an external facility formerly designated for foreign terrorism suspects, and also for migrants who were arrested at sea (but not on American soil), has become a flooded word for the American imperial state in the most indisputable and repressive, with guests In prisoners in secrecy and often ExposureThe critics say was tantamount to torture. Now, Guantanamo also includes Venezuelan immigrants ClaimWithout evidence, they are particularly dangerous criminals, the “worst of the worst”, including alleged gang members and children’s diseases.

The Trump administration indicated that up to 30,000 migrants in the prison camp can be held.

Relatives of those who have already held that they have been accused of falsehood and defenders say there is no reason to believe that the government’s assurances. In a statement of the salon, the Ministry of Internal Security refused to provide any evidence that supports government claims, saying: “We cannot give personal identification information.” DHS did not respond when asked why this is the case.

“We are not planning to trust in the Trump administration’s description of those who are sent to Guantanamo. We believe that we have a right, and the American public has a right, to know ourselves who has been sent there,” Gilrrent said. “Based on our own investigation, we do not believe that every person is sent there has a dangerous criminal history, and despite the ambiguity of the Trump administration, we also want to confirm that even a person has a criminal history that will have certain rights and should not be sent to Guantanamo.”

News means also conducted rear research on the three detainees named in the case and were unable to find a violent criminal record.

relatives Sequera and Castillo The news means that the authorities should have taken tattoos as a sign that it was part of the Tren De Aragua gang, and used it as “Guinea pigs” for the Trump’s collective deportation program. This interpretation comes after Ice said that the tattoo is seen as “one of the many indicators” that the individual belongs to the gang.

Independent experts said they could not find any real connection between gangs and tattoos, and the common decoration of Venezuelan and Almost a third of the Americans.

“The tattoo is largely meaningless unless it is combined with other factors, such as the history of prison or well -known criminal associations,” Pablo Zipalos, an expert in Chile in organized crime, I told the Washington Post.

Dozens of other transferred detainees have been recognized since the issuance of the photos, with their friends and relatives express terror and confusion that such a punishment should affect the people who have known them as a friendly barber (in the case of Sequera), Football colleague or The loved father.

“I think, as in the past, when we have access to these individuals. The truth will be that it is far from” the worst of the worst. “” I am sure that many of them have not been charged ever, not to mention its condemnation Crime. I think it is important to remember that some of these individuals have entered the United States legally seeking political asylum or other shelter under American and international law. “

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Previously, the federal authorities kept immigrants, Usually those who fell into the seaIn Guantanamo for “treatment” that may sometimes take more than a year to complete it. But the Trump administration plan to fill a detention facility abroad with thousands of people detained on American soil – and therefore they are entitled to constitutional protection, regardless of their legal status – unprecedented.

Even when Guantanamo included only a few population, officials of the International Refugee Assistance Project found in 2023 that the detainees were still “detained in dilapidated facilities with defective plumbing, rodents, and drinking water shortage,” according to Henrik Desolis, said. The Henrike Dessaules Group of Communications Manager.

“This administration’s attempt to send thousands of people from the United States there, but the conditions will be worse,” she told the Salon newspaper.

While many prisons managed by the United States faced a scrutiny of the mistreatment of its prisoners, Guantanamo, a “legal black hole” where people disappear without regular legal procedures and raises pictures Service blindfolded eyes Prostration before armed guards or existence Threatened with Zamaria dogsHe has a particularly horrific reputation.

Dixon said the cruelty is exactly the point.

“What can be worse, more terrifying and more torture than telling you that you will say to Guantenamo Bay?” He said. “They are doing this for terrorism in the minds of unimaginable individuals in the United States. This is all related to deliberate cruelty towards non -citizens. It is not related to law, politics, or anything of that. It is a purely performance.”