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Military aircraft quickly went from Texas, eight flights for so many days. Each of them was transporting more than a dozen immigrants who are allegedly the United States are “the worst” species of criminals, including members of violent Venezuelan street gang.
Since February 4, the Trump administration flew about 100 detained immigrants to the US military base in the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, better known for being suspected of planning the September 11 terrorist attacks. Officials widely advertised flights as a demonstration of President Donald Trump’s commitment to one of the central promises of his company, and they distributed photos of some immigrants both upon takeoff and land. But they did not miss the names of those they hold, or presented details about their alleged crimes.
However, in recent days, information about flights and people appeared on them, which raises the government’s issue. Propublica and Texas Tribune have identified almost a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who were transferred to Guantanamo. A New York Times Posted a broader list with some, but not all of the same names.
For the three Guantanama detained, who took place in the detention center in El -Pasa, Texas, Propublica and Tribune, received records of their criminal stories and talked to their families. Three men are all Venezuela. Each was detained by the immigration authorities shortly after crossing the US and Mexico and was deducted in custody, waiting for deportation. In some cases, they had been moving for months, because Venezuela had not been largely deported until recently. According to the US Federal Court, two of them had no crimes on their records, except for illegal entry. The third took an additional fee being in custody, for being kicked by the officer, holding back during the riots.
In an interview on Tuesday, the relatives of three men said they were completely left in the dark about their loved ones. All of them said that their relatives were not criminals, and two presented records from the Venezuelan ministry and other documents to support their statements. They said the US government did not give them any information about the location of the detainees or the opportunity to talk to them.
Lawyers say they were also denied access. A The American Union of Civil Liberty has filed a lawsuit On Wednesday, claiming that the US Constitution gives the detainees the right of a legal representation, which cannot be deprived only because they were transferred to Guantanamo.
“They had never been killed from the soil before and sent to Guantanamo, and then denied access to lawyers and the outside world,” said L. Gelent, a leading prosecutor in the ACLU case. “It is difficult to think about anything, so sharply disagreed with the basic principles on which our country was built.”
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Isaica Palma sobbed as she talked about her brother Jose Daniel Simans, a 30-year-old construction worker, and about how he felt about him as a terrorist when all he did was an attempt to come to the USA in the pursuit work. Angela Seckerra was confused that she could not talk to her son, Her, a hairdresser who worked as a hairdresser in Venezuela.
Michel Duran expressed the same thing about her son Meryda Duran, who also worked as a hairdresser. “For me, it’s despair, a disappointment that I don’t know anything about him,” he said in a telephone interview in Spanish from his home in Venezuela. “It’s a terrible longing. I don’t sleep. “
In response to questions about Guantanam’s detentions, the International Security Department officials insisted that no evidence was that some but also all the immigrants they transferred to Guantanama are violent members of the gang and others- “high-ranking” Criminals.
DHS TRICIA McLaughlin press secretary, answering ACLU’s claim, stated in an email that there is a telephone system that the detainees could use to get to lawyers. Writing all the hats on the accent, she added: “When the American Civil Liberty Union cares more about very dangerous criminal foreigners, including murder and gang members than about American citizens, they must change their name.”
In the past, The US Government contained information about the cases that are said. In these cases, the authorities say the information they use to determine the guardianship is confidential. Government said some people sent to Guantanamo terrorist group When he took office. Among the things that law enforcement agencies used to identify the members of the group were certain tattoos, including stars, roses and crowns, although there is disagreement in reliability, whether this practice is reliable. The lawyers expressed concern that the government sometimes uses national security problems as a reason to avoid control.
Guantanam’s detentions may be one of the most popular steps that the Trump administration has taken as part of its mass deportation campaign, but federal agents have also been confused across the country over the past few weeks to raid in neighborhoods and jobs. The data obtained by Propublica and The Tribune show that from January 20 to the first days of February, at least 14,000 immigration arrests occurred. About 44% of them were people with criminal convictions, and of those who were convicted of misconduct. However, Border Tsar Trump, Tom Homan, said he was not satisfied with the pace of forced execution.
Government data received by information organizations show that Trump administration averaged about 500 deportations per day, which lacked more than 2100 a day during the 2024 financial year under former President Joe Biden. However, the difference may be due to fewer border crossings that have been declining since last year.
Trump sent departments Last month’s defense and internal security for the preparation of 30,000 beds in Guantanamo, and later stated that the site was for “criminal illegal foreigners threatening the American people.”
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Relatives of three of those who are currently detained in Guantanamo said the immigrants had tattoos. And one of them, Simancas, was from the Aragua, the state Where was the Trink de Aragua born. The relatives of the detainees dispute that their loved ones are related to the group. “It doesn’t make sense. He’s a family man,” Palma said in Spanish his brother. “Tattoos are not a sin.”
Palma, who currently lives in Ecuador, said her brother left Venezuela many years ago, first living in Ecuador, and then in Costa -Rica. Last year, he decided to try success in the US, crossing with a group that included his wife and cousin, which were soon released in the US to hold asylum, they both said in an interview. All three women said that Simancas was proud of his work on the construction sites and shared the video Tiktok he did, showing the progress of some of his projects put into music. On February 7, Simancas called his cousin, saying he was being delivered to Guantanam. “It’s really unpleasant,” his sister said. “I have to have faith because when I destroy, I can’t help him.”
The fool’s father learned only about his son’s whereabouts after recognizing his face in a video of a ticket with some images released by the US government in gray hills and coils leading into military aircraft in El Pas.
Durana left Venezuela, hoping to open his own hairdressing in Chicago once, where he had relatives. He described his son, who has a toddler as a joke and a devoted worker. Duran was detained in July 2023 at his third attempt to cross the border, his father said. He remained in custody after convicted of attacking a federal officer during the riot at the Immigration Center in El -Pasa in August, approximately a month after his arrival. On February 6, he called his father, asking him to collect a documentation that could prove that Venezuela had no criminal record because officials tried to tie him to Trago Traga. It was the last thing his father heard about him.
Angela Seker was used to talking to her son every day on the phone when he was detained in El -Pasa, but then she stopped hearing from him sharply. On Sunday, she was called the detainee in the center of El -Pas, in which her son had been transferred to her, but she could not talk to him; When she looked him online, she still showed him on the border.
She last heard from him a day before. “Estoy Cansado”, I was exhausted, she said in Spanish. “It is unfair that I am still detained.” Since September, it was kept in the center of the detention center in El -Pasa, after turning into a border patrol into the presidency, almost four hours south of El -Pas.
Yoiker Sequera, which was first identified on the online publication Insider -MigrantIt is among the three Venezuelans named in the trial filed by the AKLO. A 25-year-old guy wanted to be a hairdresser from the boy, said his mother, like his uncle. That’s how he made a living, wherever he went, in Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia. He continued to hold back his hair along the migrants route when he tried to get to his family in California last year and inside the detention center.
Angela Seker said her son planned to cross the border and tried to seek asylum in the US. “Now they want to tie him to criminal groups. Everything that happens is so unfair.”
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Pratheek Rebala contributed to the report.
