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Less than a week after the deportation of the Venezuelans detained in the Guantanamo Bay, Trump administration flew about two dozen migrants to the US military base in Cuba again. However, this time migrants from the countries of the world, including from places that are ready to return them back, raised additional questions about which the government chooses to and why.
Propublica and Texas Tribune were interviewed by Angela Secker, the mother of one of the first migrants sent to Guantanam. She talked about her fear and despair, learning that her son, her Seker, was transferred to the object she only knew as a place where the terrorists were held after the attacks on September 11.
On February 9, Seker waited for a daily phone call from Yoiker, which was in immigration detention El Pas since he had been charged with illegal entry into the United States late last year. When the phone finally rang, it was not her son, but another detainee, who told her that yoker had been delivered to Guantanam.
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water. I asked the man,” Why? Why? Reminded? She said the detainee told her that the federal government was trying to tie Yoiker to deragua’s Tree, notorious Venezuelan gang, known for migrant smuggling and other crimes in Latin America.
She paniced. She couldn’t understand why this was happening. She and some relatives of 178 Venezuelans who were one of the first migrants moved to the US government to try to make contact with their loved ones, watched the Internet and exchanged messages on the improvised WhatsApp group.
PROPUBLICA and Texas Tribune The received records about Yoiker and the other two Venezuelans who were delivered to Guantanam. The search of the US Federal Court found out that there were no crimes in Yoiker and the other person except illegal entry, and the third was convicted of attacking a federal officer during the riots during the detention. “My son is not a criminal. He has no record. It has nothing to do with gangs. It does not belong to any Traju Traga, ”said Secker, who shared the documentation from the Venezuelan authorities, who stated that he had no criminal history.
On February 21, 13 days later, when he heard from his son, Sucker called Yoiker. He was released and returned to Venezuela, but refused to discuss the time he had been detained at the military -marine base. “I think he is doing this not to worry,” said Secker, who is one of the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit filed by supporters of immigrants who seek legal access to migrants in Guantanam.
This week, the US Department of Internal Security press stated that almost half of the Venezuelans, originally detained in Guantanamo, were members of the Tren de Aragua gang and that many had serious criminal records. DHS did not represent evidence confirming this statement.
DHS also stated in court statements this month that Guantanamo would continue “temporarily” migrants before they were “taken to their home country or to a safe third country.”
Migrants in Guantanamo arrived from Salvador, Nicaragua, Egypt, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Guinea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Senegal, according to government -shared propublica and the Tribune. DHS did not respond to several requests for the latest translations.
“We still know very little about the conditions that the government sends there and why it happens,” said Zoya Bowman, lawyer of the propaganda campaign in Las-American in El Paso, who is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit.
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