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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Morgan Lee and Tara Copp

US transfers immigrants out of Guantanamo Bay to Louisiana as court weighs legality

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U.S. authorities have removed immigrants from detention facilities at the Guantanamo Bay naval base as a federal court in Washington weighs a challenge by civil rights advocates to holding immigrants at the offshore military station.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Southern Command on Thursday said that no “illegal aliens” are being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after 40 immigrants were flown off the base on Tuesday to Louisiana.

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