Judge sides with Trump administration allowing migrants to be held at Guantnamo

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 9:15 PM, Mar 14, 2025


A federal judge in Washington ruled against plaintiffs who challenged the Trump administration’s ability to transfer immigrants who are not legally in the country to the U.S. military base in Cuba, known as Guantánamo Bay. Federal district court judge Carl John Nichols ruled that the plaintiffs did not meet the proper burden of proof to obtain two separate temporary restraining orders (TROs).

The first TRO would’ve required the Trump administration to give additional access to the military base to attorneys and the second TRO would’ve prevented the Trump administration from transferring additional undocumented immigrants to Guantánamo. Several immigrant rights groups filed two lawsuits. The first asserted that the U.S. government prevented attorneys from gaining access to and communicating with detainees who were being held at Guantánamo.

“By doing so, the U.S. government has prevented immigrants from accessing legal assistance to understand their rights and to challenge their transfer and detention or conditions of confinement at Guantánamo,” attorneys wrote in their complaint. Although, by the time of Friday’s hearing, both sides acknowledged that accommodations had been made to allow attorneys to connect with clients if and when detainees are transferred to Guantánamo.

Attorneys also wanted Judge Nichols to allow attorneys to visit clients who were being detained at Guantanamo, but the court countered that there could be logistical hurdles in allowing attorneys to physically visit detainees on the military base. But by the time of Friday’s hearing, the U.S. government had already removed all detainees who were transferred from the United States away from the base. It was revealed in court Friday that all but one of the detainees were transferred back to their home countries.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/judge-sides-with-trump-administration-allowing-migrants-to-be-held-at-guantanamo

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This is pretty much moot now as it was acknowledged that this was a wasteful $16 million fiasco - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143416756

(I won't rule out the fascists doing any later attempts to create a concentration camp there in the future)

[claudette]

1. Wasn't it

reported by Rachel Maddow that all those prisoners were already sent back to the USA?

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2. That's what I have in the OP comments

[claudette]

3. Sorry I was

confused by the headline in the OP. Did the judge say they have to go back again? I’m so dense 😊

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4. In this case

it was the 45 administration that decided to remove people from there due to the conditions and that happened before that court ruling.

I suppose the court needed to make a decision regardless (I suppose leaving it open to allowing moves there in the future). I expect if they did send any there again, there would probably be an appeal (if there isn't one about to happen in any case to make sure it doesn't happen in the future).

[claudette]

5. Oh I see

Personally I think they don’t belong there. Migrants do not equal terrorists

[BumRushDaShow]

6. That place needs to be closed

but Congress won't authorize the funding to close and decommission the base.

[Polybius]

7. Obama wanted it closed

My assumption is that he didn't have the votes, even before 2010.

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8. No one wanted the remaining detainees in their states (even if in a federal super max)

Biden was able to many of the remaining prisoners out and to a host country but there are 15 left.

[NotHardly]

9. Disgraceful ruling.

Gitmo is just a way/means of removing people from what was 'the rule of law' and the means to defend themselves from unlawful detention.