The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
The Trump administration transported another 15 immigration prisoners from Texas to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba Sunday, days after it transferred 177 Venezuelan citizens who were being held at the military base to Honduras.
In a story published Feb. 20, 2025, The Associated Press reported that immigrant transfer flights arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday from Texas and Louisiana. While
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
In its first two weeks, the Trump administration announced plans to open detention sites in Texas and Colorado, and began utilizing Fort Bliss, a former Japanese American internment camp, to transport immigrants on military planes to Guantanamo Bay (GITMO).
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.
The Trump administration said that Guantanamo would house the most violent undocumented migrants -- but relatives of some detainees say they don't have criminal records.
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 ...
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 ...