{"id":82436,"date":"2025-01-29T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-says-hell-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-base\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:13:32","slug":"trump-says-hell-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-says-hell-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019ll send \u2018worst\u2019 criminal migrants to Guantanamo base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/29\/active-duty-troops-file-lawsuit-challenging-trumps-trans-troops-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-laken-riley-act-trump-immigration-2667d626139ddf5a16d1533516eab18f\" target=\"_blank\">Laken Riley Act<\/a> into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the \u201cworst criminal aliens\u201d to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bipartisan act, the first piece of legislation approved during Trump\u2019s second term, was named for Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was slain last year by a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe was a light of warmth and kindness,\u201d Trump said during a ceremony that included Riley\u2019s parents and sister. \u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous tribute to your daughter what\u2019s taking place today, that\u2019s all I can say. It\u2019s so sad we have to be doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has promised to drastically increase deportations, but he also said at the signing that some of the people being sent back to their home countries couldn\u2019t be counted on to stay there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome of them are so bad that we don\u2019t even trust the countries to hold them because we don\u2019t want them coming back, so we\u2019re gonna send \u2019em out to Guantanamo,\u201d Trump said. He said that he would soon sign an executive order directing federal officials to get facilities in Cuba ready to receive migrant criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal aliens threatening the American people,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move would immediately \u201cdouble\u201d U.S. detention lockup capacities, he said. Guantanamo, he added, is \u201ca tough place to get out of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In subsequent comments to reporters outside the White House, new Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said of expanded detention facilities that \u201cwe\u2019re building it out\u201d and that the administration would seek funding via spending bills Congress is set to consider. The administration\u2019s border czar, Tom Homan, said U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement would run the facility in Cuba and that the \u201cthe worst of the worst&#8221; could go to Guantanamo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the details of Trump\u2019s plan were not immediately clear. The U.S. military base has been used to house detainees from the U.S. war on terrorism for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But authorities have also detained migrants at sea at a facility known as the Migrant Operations Center on Guantanamo, a site the U.S. has long leased from the Cuban government. Many of those housed there have been migrants from Haiti and Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that enemy combatants in the war on terror held without charge at the military prison at Guantanamo had the right to challenge their detention in federal court. But the justices did not decide whether the president had the authority to detain people at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Trump took office, the Democratic administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden worked to reduce the number of terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riley was out for a run in February 2024 when she was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. Ibarra <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-nursing-student-laken-riley-immigrant-d8d75ccc6d81e7a88eb7890829d9fc9c\" target=\"_blank\">was found guilty in November<\/a> and sentenced to life without parole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibarra had been arrested for illegal entry in September 2022 near El Paso, Texas, and released to pursue his case in immigration court. Federal officials say he was arrested by New York police in August 2023 for child endangerment and released. Police say he was also issued a citation for shoplifting in Georgia in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The act quickly passed the newly Republican-controlled Congress with some Democratic support even though immigrant rights advocates said it possibly could lead to large roundups of people for offenses as minor as shoplifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The swift passage, and Trump\u2019s signing nine days after taking office adds to the potent symbolism for conservatives. To critics, the measure has taken advantage of a tragedy and could lead to chaos and cruelty while doing little to fight crime or overhaul the immigration system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riley\u2019s mother thanked Trump while holding back tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe said he would secure our borders and he would never forget about Laken and he hasn\u2019t,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several top Republican lawmakers and Noem attended the signing ceremony, as did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a co-sponsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new law, federal officials would have to detain any immigrant arrested or charged with crimes such as theft or assaulting a police officer, or offenses that injure or kill someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State attorneys general could sue the U.S. government for harm caused by federal immigration decisions \u2014 potentially allowing the leaders of conservative states to help dictate immigration policy set by Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Democrats have questioned whether it is constitutional. Immigrant advocates are bracing for mass detentions that they say will mean costly construction of immigration lockup facilities to house the people arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey don\u2019t just get to celebrate. They get to use this for their mass deportation agenda,\u201d Naureen Shah, deputy director of government affairs in the equality division of the American Civil Liberties Union, said of the act\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ALCU says the act can allow people to be \u201cmandatorily locked up \u2014 potentially for years \u2014 because at some point in their lives, perhaps decades ago, they were accused of nonviolent offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hannah Flamm, interim senior director of policy at the International Refugee Assistance Project, said the measure violates immigrants\u2019 basic rights by allowing for detaining people who have not been charged with wrongdoing, much less convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe latent fear from the election cycle of looking soft on crime snowballed into aiding and abetting Trump\u2019s total conflation of immigration with crime,\u201d Flamm said. 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