The Trump administration has flown all remaining migrants held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station back to the United States, a Defense Department official confirmed. The 40 men were transported to Louisiana, where they are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It remains unclear why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chose to bring these migrants back to the United States after the costs incurred in flying them to Guantánamo in the first place, as The Washington Post reports. The latest transfer was conducted using ICE Air, a more cost-effective alternative to the military flights that had previously been used for transporting migrants to the naval base.
