Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses visits Guantanamo Bay
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses visited the US Navy Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Tuesday to observe the Trump administration’s immigration detention work and described prison detainees for detainees in the war on terrorism.
Mr. Hegses arrived at the base with a former colleague at Lowline Graham of Fox News about an hour ago. Military flight from El Paso, Texas They land there and carry nine migrants, as determined by the Department of Homeland Security, and are housed in Guantanamo for deportation.
Pentagram provided There is little details Traveling. But Ingraham I posted my own photo And Mr. Hagseth stood on the roof of the runway building as explained by the two-star general in charge of the operation. The freight planes from Texas were visible in the background.
Heguces served as the Army li at Guantanamo from 2004 to 5, and visited the base in 2016. It has been reported About life there.
He spoke lovingly about his deployment to the base, where he served as platoon leader for the New Jersey State Guard infantry unit. The unit was a massive operation of nearly 2,600 US troops and over 600 detainees at the time, and spread across the vast prison zone of Bluff overlooking the Caribbean.
As of Tuesday, he had visited a significantly reduced operation. Currently held by the Department of Defense 15 foreign men from the war on terrorism The facility called Camp 5 includes six men charged with death cases. Al-Qaeda attack on September 11, 2001 and USS Call on October 12, 2000.
In a prison building called Camp 6 next door, Homeland Security and Defense Division on Tuesday housed 26 men whom the Trump administration said were designated for deportation. Documents seen by the New York Times included seven men from Honduras, four from Colombia, three from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and one from Ecuador, ages 23 to 62 .
The nine migrants arrived on Tuesday’s flight from El Paso, according to two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hegseth is Frenzy On the immigration detention work that began detaining ice prisoners removed from the United States on February 4th. So far, the two facilities at the base house 178 other men, all Venezuelans.
Tuesday, he I posted a photo of myself having lunch A combination of members of the Joint Ice Force Task Force staffed for operations, civilians and uniformed service members. “These warriors directly support the arrest and deportation of dangerous illegal aliens,” he wrote on social media. “We can’t thank them or their families enough.”
In 2021, he announced that he was “The Guantanamo detention operation”A Prison with no mission. ”
“When leftist lawyers and other protections came in, I was bothered very quickly, very quickly,” he said. war. ”
Hegses’ visit comes as civil liberty lawyers seek access to immigration detainees.
