The Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the three men, “has labored for decades to close Guantanamo and secure accountability for human rights abuses perpetrated there against Haitian migrants in the 1990s and hundreds of Muslim men and boys post-9/11,” according to senior staff attorney Jessica Vosburgh.
“Transferring people from the Otero County Processing Center, where we have ready access to visit our clients, to an offshore prison thousands of miles away from counsel, is appalling,” said Zoe Bowman, supervising attorney at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristie Noem has defended use of the facility, which the administration claims is being used to jail suspected Tren de Agua gang members and “the worst of the worst and illegal criminals,” according to Noem.
“I fear being taken to Guantanamo because the news is painting it as a black hole,” Abrahan Barrios Morales, who has been in ICE custody since October 2023, said in a statement Monday.
Judge blocks Trump from sending Venezuelan immigrants to Guantanamo Three men who have been in ICE custody for more than a year warn against their transfer to a ‘black hole’.
