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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

‘A human rights disaster’: immigrants sent into Guantánamo black hole despite no proof of crime

military members escort immigrants into a plane as a police officer watches on
A handout image from the Department of Homeland Security shows the first US military aircraft to carry immigrants to a detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, in an unspecified location in the US on 4 February 2025. Photograph: Department of Homeland Security/Reuters

Handcuffed and shackled, the men appear in government propaganda photos being herded towards military cargo planes that will carry them to an uncertain future in an infamous land.

“These individuals are the worst of the worst that we have pulled off of our streets,” Donald Trump’s homeland security chief, Kristi Noem, thundered against the supposedly “criminal alien murderers, rapists, child predators and gangsters” being packed off to Guantánamo Bay.

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