Civil rights attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent the transfer of undocumented immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), alongside other advocacy groups, contends that the policy is illegal and denies detainees their constitutional rights.
The lawsuit specifically seeks to block the transfer of ten individuals currently detained in the U.S., arguing that their relocation to Guantánamo would violate federal law and due process protections under the Fifth Amendment. The lawsuit is the second filed by the ACLU in less than a month, after a February 12 one which denounced that migrants transferred to the U.S. detention facility were being held without access to legal counsel or communication with the outside world.
