[Salon] Fwd: Guantanamo to hold up to 30, 000 migrants in the US illegally

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

An attorney-friend from the East Coast tells me there are reported cases of U.S. citizens being caught up in these sweeps of "illegals," not guilty of any crime, not even "entering the country illegally." But as we all know, "you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs," as our favorite totalitarians liked to put it, and so apropos today with National Conservatives, whether against Palestinians, or "foreign looking people" in the U.S.  

Auschwitz had to begin somewhere, which was Dachau, used at first to lock up "Woke Marxists."

Begin forwarded message:

Dear Friends,

Have any of you written in the past about the constitutionality of sending noncitizens who have constitutional rights on the mainland to Guantanamo (on the assumption that, as the government will surely argue, those rights do not apply there)?

Thanks to you all,

From: 

We failed to close it. Now it will again be a site for additional infamy.

 

Trump says he’ll use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the US illegally

By Globe Staff

President Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/Associated Press

President Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.

Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.

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Trump directs opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants in US illegally — 3:02 p.m.

By the Associated Press

Speaking at a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, which is focused on detaining and potentially deporting people in the country illegally if they’re accused of theft and other violent crimes, Trump proclaimed: “We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.”

The US military base in Cuba has been used to house detainees from the US war on terrorism.

President Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/Associated Press