First images of the migrants that the United States sent to the Guantanamo military base

The United States sent on Tuesday The first flight with arrested migrants In American territory towards a detention center at the Guantanamo military base (located in Cuba), according to the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt.

“We will not allow the United States to be a landfill of illegal criminals of nations around the world,” he said in statements this morning to Fox News chain.

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Later, the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, published the first photographs that are known about that group of migrants. “President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will house the worst of the worst. That begins today (this Tuesday),” he wrote in the publication, in which he attached the photographs.

The government of President Donald Trump undertook a campaign against the more than 11 million undocumented migrants in the country, calling them “criminals” and promising to carry out the largest deportation process in the history of the United States.

In their first weeks in power, the authorities have arrested more than 3,000 people throughout the country, a figure away from the “massive” raids that Trump promised to make.

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The president ordered to expand the ability to detention at the Guantanamo Naval Base to house more than 30,000 people and the Pentagon already deployed more than 150 military for this task.

Among the military deployed are Marina and other military in the southern command of the United States, in charge of Latin America.

Last Wednesday, by signing the memorandum to expand the ability of the Migrant Center in Guantanamo, Trump said the measure seeks to “stop the worst illegal criminal immigrants who represent a threat to the American people.”

Under American law, living in the country without authorization or legal status is not a criminal foul but civil. Therefore, it is false that undocumented people have in themselves a “criminal history”, as the current government has assured.

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Crossing the border without inspection – codified as ‘misuse’ – or trying to enter the United States after having been deported or expelled is typified in criminal legislation: the first as a minor crime and the second as a serious crime.

Multiple studies, including an investigation by Stanford University that analyzes data since the 60s, have found that migrants are less likely to commit crimes or be convicted of a crime than people born in the United States.

The Guantanamo Bay prison was inaugurated in 2002, within an American military base in Cuba, as part of the “War on terrorism” declared by former President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Democratic presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama promised to close it, but none did it during their mandates.