The Trump administration is using the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to detain dozens of foreigners from 26 countries and six different continents, including detainees with serious criminal convictions, the Department of Homeland Security said, SİA informs via CBS News.
CBS News said last week that, as part of an expansion of the Trump administration's effort to turn Guantanamo Bay into an immigration detention center, officials had transferred detainees from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe to the naval base. Initially, the base housed mainly Spanish-speaking Latin American migrants awaiting deportation.
DHS officials on Tuesday confirmed CBS News' reporting, sharing the full list of the nationalities of those detained at Guantanamo Bay, as well as the names and criminal histories of more than two dozen detainees. They are being held separately from the remaining prisoners held there as a result of the US war on terror.
The list shows Guantanamo Bay is housing detainees from all continents other than Antarctica.
The detainees, DHS said, hail from Brazil, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Russia, Somalia, St. Kitts-Nevis, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Vietnam.
The criminal records of the detainees whose names were shared by DHS officials include convictions for homicide; sexual offenses, including against children; child pornography; assault with a weapon; kidnapping; drug smuggling; and robbery. DHS officials said they all have final deportation orders.
Those with criminal records are classified as "high-risk" detainees and held at Camp IV, the post-9/11 prison complex at Guantanamo Bay that also holds around a dozen war on terror-era detainees, though in a distinct part of the facility. Those without serious criminal records or any at all — deemed to be "low-risk" detainees — are housed at a barrack-like facility known as the Migrant Operations Center.
As of this week, there were 72 immigration detainees at Guantanamo Bay, 58 of them classified as high-risk and 14 in the low-risk category, two US officials told CBS News, requesting anonymity to discuss internal data.
The administration began using the base to hold immigration detainees in early February.
The Trump administration has sought to use controversial detention centers and prisons to warn those in the US illegally — particularly those convicted of serious crimes — that they will be found, detained and deported if they don't turn themselves in or self-deport.
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