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   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/1st-migrant-flight-heads-guantanamo-bay-   
   carrying-worst/story?id=118456073   
      
   The first flight carrying "high-threat" migrants to Guantanamo Bay arrived   
   Tuesday evening, part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal   
   immigration.   
      
   The C-17 plane took off from El Paso, Texas, and landed landed at 7:20   
   p.m. Eastern time, according to U.S. Transportation Command.   
      
   The 10 people on the flight were suspected members of the Venezuelan gang,   
   Tren de Aragua, according to the Department of Homeland Security.   
      
   The migrants, however, will not be co-located with existing detainees at   
   Guantanamo Bay, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have the   
   primary guard of them.   
      
   "These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant   
   detention facilities," the Defense Department said in a Wednesday   
   statement, calling the detention of these migrants at Guantanamo Bay a   
   "temporary measure." "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking   
   this measure to ensure the safe and secure detention of these individuals   
   until they can be transported to their country of origin or other   
   appropriate destination."   
      
   President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 29 directing the   
   secretaries of the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland   
   Security to "expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station   
   Guantanamo Bay to full capacity" to house migrants without legal status   
   living in the United States. The Migrant Operations Center is separate   
   from the high-security prison facility that has been used to hold al Qaeda   
   detainees.   
      
   "There's a lot of space to accommodate a lot of people," Trump said in the   
   Oval Office on Tuesday. "So we're going to use it.   
      
   "The migrants are rough, but we have some bad ones, too," he added. "I'd   
   like to get them out. It would be all subject to the laws of our land, and   
   we're looking at that to see if we can."   
      
   White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the flights   
   carrying migrants to Guantanamo Bay were underway Tuesday morning, saying   
   on Fox News, "Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem are already delivering   
   on this promise to utilize that capacity at Gitmo for illegal criminals   
   who have broken our nation's immigration laws and then have further   
   committed heinous crimes against lawful American citizens here at home."   
      
   While Trump has said the United States will work to prepare the base to   
   hold 30,000 migrants awaiting processing to return to their home   
   countries, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Guantanamo   
   Bay's high-security prison facility could house "the worst of the worst"   
   criminals being deported.   
      
   "Where are you going to put Tren de Aragua before you send them all the   
   way back?" Hegseth asked. "How about a maximum-security prison at   
   Guantanamo Bay, where we have the space?"   
      
   He called the base "the perfect place to provide for migrants who are   
   traveling out of our country," including for "hardened criminals."   
      
   "President @realdonaldtrump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will hold   
   the worst of the worst. That starts today," Homeland Security Secretary   
   Kristi Noem posted on Tuesday. It is unclear what charges the migrants on   
   the plane face.   
      
   "Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantánamo Bay   
   will be an asset to us and the fact that we'll have the capacity to   
   continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence   
   of illegal immigrants there who have been detained -- we're just building   
   out some capacity," Noem told NBC News on Sunday. "We appreciate the   
   partnership of the DoD in getting that up to the level that it needs to   
   get to in order to facilitate this repatriation of people back to their   
   countries."   
      
   She added that it is "not the plan" to have migrants stay at Guantanamo   
   Bay indefinitely.   
      
   As of Monday, there were about 300 service members supporting the   
   immigrant holding operations at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, according to   
   U.S. Southern Command. U.S. officials told ABC News that as many as 200   
   more Marines are expected to arrive in waves.   
      
   The Defense Department posted that the troops are at Guantanamo Bay "to   
   prepare to expand the Migrant Operations Center" to house up to the 30,000   
   migrants temporarily, separate from the maximum-security prison.   
      
   "As we identify criminal illegals in our country, the military is leaning   
   forward to help with moving them out to their home countries or someone   
   else in the interim," Hegseth said on Jan. 31. "Now if … they can't go   
   somewhere right away, they can go to Guantanamo Bay."   
      
   Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham   
   University School of Law, told ABC News' Phil Lipof on Jan. 29 that a "big   
   challenge" of holding migrants at Guantanamo Bay is the large number Trump   
   has suggested.   
      
   "I don't know that they have the capacity for that," said Greenberg, who   
   noted that "in the old days and the '90s, I think they held 21,000 at the   
   most."   
      
   She added that the base has long held refugees and migrants, including in   
   the Biden administration, though in much smaller numbers, and has   
   typically been used for those intercepted at sea rather than to hold   
   migrants flown in from the continental U.S.   
      
   However, Greenberg noted that the reports from those who have spent time   
   at Guantanamo Bay are "not good."   
      
   "There was a report released in September by the International Refugee   
   Assistance Project, which sort of detailed the conditions that migrants   
   are held in currently at Guantanamo, which included unsanitary conditions,   
   mistreatment, not to mention this sort of fuzzy legal status," she said.   
      
      
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