EL PASO, Texas – Three immigrants who received a restraining order towards the federal authorities to keep away from switch to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba had been deported this week on direct flights to Venezuela, in accordance with courtroom paperwork revealed Friday.
The three males had been deported Monday, the day after a federal choose authorized a short lived order blocking a attainable switch to Guantanamo Bay.
Venezuelan immigrants are being flown every day from a navy base at El Paso, Texas, to Guantanamo as a part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Attorneys for the deported males stated they had been the goal of false accusations of gang affiliation by the U.S. authorities that will expose them to hurt.
“The federal government’s baseless accusations on this case that two of the (immigrants) are affiliated with the notorious Tren de Aragua gang raises grave considerations about dangers to their lives and freedom upon their return to Venezuela,” lawyer Jessica Myers Vosburgh of the Middle for Constitutional Rights informed a federal choose.
Immigrant rights teams have filed a separate lawsuit demanding entry to individuals who have been despatched Guantanamo Bay with out entry to authorized counsel or communication with family members.
Hundreds of thousands of determined individuals have fled Venezuela amid a extreme financial and political disaster below President Nicolás Maduro, migrating to different elements of Latin America or the U.S.
The Tren de Aragua gang originated in a lawless jail within the central Venezuelan state of Aragua greater than a decade in the past
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