Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, to Visit Guantánamo Bay
Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.
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Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.
The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.
The migrants from around the world did not know where they were or what would happen to them, according to an independent government entity.
The leadership change comes as the president aims to make good on a promise of mass deportations and arrests of undocumented immigrants across the United States.
The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.
Lawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in Cuba.
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.
More is coming, but many directives will take time to be implemented or will face political, legal or practical obstacles.
President Trump’s first administration tried to implement a similarly sped-up process for removing unauthorized immigrants, but those efforts were hampered by federal courts.