ATTYS SEEK GUANTÁNAMO ACCESS BUT FACE LOGISTIC HURDLES
The organizations seeking immediate access, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), said they are "entitled to access these individuals for the purpose of advising and providing legal representation."
"The government has provided virtually no information about these individuals, including how long they will be held at Guantánamo, under what authority and conditions, or whether they have any means of communicating with their family and attorneys," the groups said.
President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand operations at the naval base to full capacity to house up to 30,000 unauthorized immigrants with criminal backgrounds, those DHS Secretary Noem has dubbed "the worst of the worst."
Attorneys have said they aren't aware of any statutory legal authority that would allow the federal government to send unauthorized immigrants who were detained on U.S. soil to Guantánamo.
