The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Kevin Rodríguez, now back in Venezuela, said the uncertainty of not knowing how long he would be in the U.S. military facility was what worried him the most.
Guantanamo's sordid past includes top secret torture facilities, the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum seekers fleeing political violence, a concentration camp for people with HIV, and ongoing brutalization of Muslim detainees after 9/11 who were famously waterboarded and otherwise tortured.
D.C.; South Florida and West Texas offices went unanswered. At least seven military flights carrying an undisclosed number of detainees have left El Paso's Fort Bliss for Guantanamo Bay, according to social media posts by the Department of Defense U.S ...
(The Texas Tribune) - The military planes departed from Texas ... Since Feb. 4, the Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrant detainees to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a facility better known for having held those suspected of ...
Authorities initiated on Feb. 4 near-daily flights from a U.S. Army base in West Texas to Guantanamo ... immigrants recently transported to Guantanamo Bay. A lawsuit on behalf of three immigrants ...
open image in gallery U.S. military personnel have constructed tents surrounding the Guantanamo Bay prison facility in ... Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez ...
Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S. deportations.