The US military forces have tasks in some of the tents that were hastily established in an empty corner of the US Naval Station. In the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba, three months after President Trump ordered preparations to house up to 30000 migrants at the base.
It was never celebrated migrants in stores, and there has never been a migrant wave. On Monday, the operation housed only 32 migrants, in buildings that settled years ago.
A total of 497 migrants have been heroes there for only days or weeks, since the immigration and customs application uses the base as a road station to contain a small number of detainees designated for deportation.
On the other hand, the national security and defense departments have reached an agreement to house boxes, not thousands, or stop at ice at the base in a given day. The complete costs of the operation have not revealed the bone.
The army says that it can pivot and expand migrant operations in Guantanamo, depending on the need. But the decision to dismantle stores at least shows that the National Defense and Security departments currently do not plan to house thousands of migrants at the base, as the president imagined.
The tents and cribs that served as a backdrop of the high profile visit of February 7 by Kristi Call, the Secretary of National Security, have been inventory and hidden for a possible future use, according to an official of the Department of Defense, who spoke with the condition of anonymity, the migrant migrant of the sensitive president.
Around the weekend, the working group in charge of the detention of migrants in the Bay of Guantanamo was 32 migrants waiting for deportation and had around 725 staff members, mostly uniformed forces of the army and sailors, with 100 employees for ICE as security officers.
That is more than 22 military and ice workers for each migrant.
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth visited in February, the Pentagon said that the task force had 1,000 military and ice employees. Since then, the Department of Defense has estimated that it spent $ 40 million in the first month of the detention operation, including $ 3 million in the tents that were never used.
Democrats in Congress and other critics of the operation have called it a waste of funds from taxpayers and military resources because migrants’ housing in US facilities is considerably less expectation.
In a letter on Friday, Senators Gary Peters or Michigan and Alex Padilla or California asked Mr. Trump to order a review of the operation of the Government’s efficiency department for fraud, waste or misconduct.
“While no one does not agree that violent criminals should be deported, this mission is operating under the questionable legal authority, under due process and is unsustainable exhaustive, waging billions of dollars of money in dollars,” the trails wrote.
The senators said that, during a visit to Guantanamo in March, they should say that the tents did not meet the detention standards and that they were not plans to use them to keep any migrant.
A superior military leader recently declared that to maintain 30,000 migrants there in tents, the Pentagon would have to mobilize more than 9,000 US forces there. The costs would include feeding and hosting the troops, and transporting them there.
That proportion of a service member for each or four migrants intended to handle migrants such as those found in Guantanamo in the 1990s: Haitian and Cuban citizens intercepted in the sea when they arrived in the United States.
The 1990 model treated the campaign camps as a humanitarian rescue mission, not a deportation operation of the law, and defense officials have said that it could be used for similar reasons.
But the March 7 comprehension memorandum reached between representatives of the Pentagon and the Department of National Security to carry out the order of Mr. Trump defines migrants who can be heroes there as completely different from the protected families there in the 1990s.
The current agreement defines the eligible for detention in Guantanamo as “illegal foreigners with a link to a transnational criminal organization or criminal drug activity.” The Trump administration considers them violent, although that description is based on the ice profile, not on criminal convictions.
The two parties agreed that the National Security Department is responsible for all transfers, launches and removals. The document was first released by CBS News.
Of the 497 men who have a leg hero there since February 4, 178 were Venezuelans who were transferred by plane to the Cano Soto Air Base in Honduras and transferred to Venezuelan airplanes.
On April 23, a deportation flight rented from Texas stopped in Guantanamo and picked up a Venezuelan citizen before delivering 174 male and female athletes to Soto Cano. That day, another 42 migrants of unknown nationalities were retained in Guantanamo, according to the people familiar with the transfer that were not authorized by ICE to discuss it.
Other 93 were Nicaraguans who were repatriated by the United States Charter flights on April 3, 16 and 30.
Separately, a federal court is reviewing two military flights on March 31 and April 13 that May gave Venezuelans held in Guantanamo to El Salvador challenging a court order that except for the Weyrants department of the Homeland to migrants of migrants or appropriate migrants.
The order also requests that possible deportees have an opportunity to argue that they would be in danger of deportation to that third country, said Trina Realmuto, executive director of national immigration and a litigation and a litigation. The issue has been highlighted by an agreement between the Governments of the United States and Salvadorans to imprison the Venezuelan deportees in El Salvador for a rate, but essentially as a favor for Mr. Trump.
The Department of Justice argues that the March 31 flight was a military operation carried out by the Pentagon, not by the Department of National Security, so it is beyond the reach of the judge’s order.
The judge, Brian E. Murphy of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, ordered the government to reveal certain information about flights to lawyers who advocate legal protections for immigrants.
