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# US begins flying illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay

Michael Dorgan and Greg Wehner
Fox News
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:47 UTC
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, left; DOD via AP, rightThe Trump administration has begun flying detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. Right: Footage from the Defense Department shows Marines boarding a plane bound for Guantanamo Bay from an air base in North Carolina on Sunday.
President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to prepare the facility to hold around 30,000 'criminal illegal aliens' at the US military base
The Trump administration has begun flying detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.
The move comes just days after President Donald Trump announced that he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare the facility to hold around 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens" at the U.S. military base.
"I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway," Leavitt said.
© Eric Thayer/Getty ImageSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2025 in Washington, DC.
"And so President Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem are already delivering on this promise to utilize that capacity at Gitmo for illegal criminals who have broken our nation's immigration laws and then have further committed heinous crimes against lawful American citizens here at home."
Leavitt said that El Salvador has agreed to the repatriation of its own citizens as well as also "illegal criminals from other nations" who will then be sent to their prisons.
"Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country."
One flight from Fort Bliss to Guantanamo has roughly a dozen migrants on board, the Pentagon confirmed to Fox News. An additional flight left the U.S. on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The migrants will be held in the detention facility that was set up for post-Sept. 11 detainees. They will be separated from the 15 detainees already there, including the Sept. 11 planners like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Around 150 Marines are at the Naval Station and have set up tents for around 1,000 migrants in the other part of the Naval Base. But those facilities with latrines and showers are not yet ready for an onslaught of 30,000 migrants as promised by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
© White HouseIllegal immigrants boarding a plane to Guatemala in January 2025
As of today, the facility is understood to have enough beds to cater to around 144 migrants, though there is not yet enough military security for all those beds to be filled right now.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News' Will Cain on the Will Cain Show last week that Guantanamo Bay is already being used to house illegal immigrants, particularly the worst of the worst.
Noem said her department will make sure resources are placed there to ensure there is enough space to get criminal illegal aliens out of the U.S.
Trump last week signed a presidential memorandum last week to begin the process of making 30,000 beds available at Guantanamo to house migrants who pose a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there will ensure they do not come back.
"Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust their countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," Trump said. "We're going to send them to Guantanamo."
He added, "It's a tough place to get out of."
The president said the move will bring the U.S. one step closer to "eradicating the scourge" of migrant crime in communities, once and for all.
The migrant facility at the base is separate from the high-security U.S. prison for foreign terrorism suspects - which has been used occasionally for decades, including to hold Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea.
The Trump administration has not said how much it would cost to expand Guantanamo, which was established in 2002 to detain foreign militants in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Illegal immigrants boarding a plane to Guatemala last month. (White House)
He also called on Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of U.S. borders and financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel last week called Trump's move to send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo an "act of brutality."
"In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory [of Cuba], of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention," he said in a translated post on X.
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## Reader Comments (23)

Shangri · 19 days ago
US begins flying illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay.
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US hasn't began it, but Them has.
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Gator ·
Adios motherfuckers....
· 19 days ago
Poltergeist · 19 days ago
"I've got my rights."
meet
"We have our orders."
MCsnacks · 19 days ago
Wow! They took 10 prisoners. What a huge difference that is going to make! 😂
Dwoods44 · 18 days ago
Why Gitmo? "Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust their countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," Trump said. "We're going to send them to Guantanamo."
In my view, the initial focus is on cartel leaders, criminals, and maybe some treasonous individuals in the USA. Why else would you use Gitmo?
Fool on the Hill · 18 days ago
Dwoods44 Why Gitmo? Because then they can torture them, screw them up really bad, then release them back to cause mayhem, like the ones they kidnapped from the Middle East. Surprised the new “president” of Syria wasn’t conditioned there. 10 million dollars bounties disappear overnight when you do what the tormentors desire.
Poltergeist · 18 days ago

> In my view, the initial focus is on cartel leaders, criminals, and maybe some treasonous individuals in the USA. Why else would you use Gitmo?

I hope they like Britney Spears.
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I think Guns and Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" should be on that play-list too.
MCsnacks · 18 days ago
Dwoods44 The ones they sent to Gitmo were all from the same Mexican gang. Gang members that don't want to return to Mexico because the cartel will make a video with them being the stars as they play humpty dumpty using dull machetes.
MCsnacks · 18 days ago
Fool on the Hill If they wanted them tortured they could just send them back to Mexico. They would be finding pieces of them all over the city the next day.
Fool on the Hill · 18 days ago
MCsnacks That is true. Mexico is a dangerous place, cartels run the show. Threat level depends a lot on which area you live in, which is equally true in many US cities, unfortunately.
MCsnacks · 18 days ago
Fool on the Hill Matamoros on the eastside and Tijuana on the Westside are controlled by the cartels. So you better find somewhere in the middle. But I think all border towns are controlled by the cartels. Once you get to southern Mexico they control very little of those areas.
Dwoods44 · 18 days ago
Fool on the Hill Regarding "release them back", that certainly was part of the use of Gitmo in the past.
Catherine Herridge is down at Gitmo clearly to bring attention to it.
codis · 18 days ago
Why Guantanamo, and not Mexico ?
Perhaps not to feed more potential soldiers to the enemy, in the looming war against the cartels (and it's appendix called "Mexico").
Fool on the Hill · 18 days ago
codis Well, those cartels have been going on for a long time, certainly the Mexican government sent the military to deal with them, yet, they still exist. Drug pay-offs and/or profit margin grease a lot of palms, buy a lot of equipment. Not sure what Trump will do, but he got rid of John Bolton, so I would hope he doesn’t follow the footsteps of ol’ John who never saw a war he didn’t like.
MCsnacks · 18 days ago
Fool on the Hill The reason the Mexican cartels are so powerful is because the US is the number 1 consumer of illegal drugs. It creates a billion dollar dollar industry that will exist until the U.S. legalizes drugs. The day all drugs are legal is the same day the cartels will shut down for good.
codis · 17 days ago
Fool on the Hill

> Well, those cartels have been going on for a long time, certainly the Mexican government sent the military to deal with them, yet, they still exist.

I can recommend this : [Link]
Just for the topic at hand, you can skip to the last two or three minutes.
According to him, the Mexican government and thus the military is basically controlled by those cartels.
But considering that the CIA controls the greatest portion of worldwide drug trade (to finance itself, with money-laundering support by the big banks), one can conclude the CIA controls those cartels to a certain extend - like they controlled Al-Quaida and ISIS.
And further considering that the US "intelligence" agencies are thoroughly infiltrated by the Clinton / Biden / Obama deep state gang and the Davos crowd, I can further clarify Douglas Macgregor's point about a looming war with Mexico. This will be the proxy war of the Dems/Davos gang against the Trump gang.
MCsnacks · 17 days ago
codis The CIA hasn't controlled any drug trade since the 80's. The cartels then filled that void. CIA was just running guns and drugs in order to have power in South America, in order to control governments and sign deals to support the American economy.
The CIA has no control over the cartels.The same as there can never be war in Mexico with the US because there would be too many civilians that would be killed.
Dwoods44 · 17 days ago
codis Thanks for the link and the analysis. When you stop the flow of money, partly by stopping the flow of durgs and trafficked children, what will be revealed?
MCsnacks · 16 days ago
Dwoods44 The only way to stop the flow of drugs is by legalizing drugs which the US is currently doing a test run by legalizing marijuana in half of the states. Most of those states being border states where the inflow of drugs occur.
And the inflow of marijuana has decreased every year since California legalized it. This will lead to other drugs being legalized as they are being normalized like when marijuana first started being publicly talked about positively. Stimulants are next as more and more prescriptions are written for them every year.
Fool on the Hill · 15 days ago
MCsnacks Put people in prison for using plants, it’s crazy. Creation has made it available, but men make a judgement that it is bad, thus putting themselves in judgment of the natural world, and punishing those who exercise their god given rights.
MCsnacks · 15 days ago
Fool on the Hill But people also don't understand that all illegal drugs come from a plant a base. Methamphetamine comes from the Ephedra plant.(Ephedrine).
Heroin from the poppy plant.
The government and media also you scare tactics to make society do what they are told. Like when they say that busted someone with enough fentanyl to kill millions of people. Do you know what is more deadly than fentanyl that is legal and injected into people daily? Botox.
Fool on the Hill · 14 days ago
MCsnacks Sure do, in fact I didn’t even suit up to inspect the Botox manufacturing site in Irvine, CA. I just refused to go in. Unfortunately, the state and county health inspectors didn’t have a choice. Plants have been used for medicines for thousands of years before the Rockefeller Foundation totally dominated the medical field and made using plants, and their practitioners illegal. I don’t have the video link anymore about a documentary that explained it all. World is run by Satanists.
MCsnacks · 14 days ago
Fool on the Hill The American Medical Association created a propaganda department in 1913 geared toward outlawing marijuana, opium and cocaine. Opium and cocaine were the first drugs outlawed in the US which happened in 1914. Alcohol was outlawed in 1919. In 1937 cannabis was made illegal. Gateway drug theory was adopted in 1956.
LSD made illegal in 1968. Heroin and opiates made illegal in 1973.
Amphetamines were made illegal in 1985.