Lawyers sue of keeping 10 migrants away from Guantanamo Bay, as others say they were abused there

Civil rights lawyers sued the Trump administration on Saturday, to prevent 10 migrants from being detained in the USA to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and submitted explanations of men who had stated that they were abused there on conditions that were described as “living hell”.

The federal action was sued less than a month after the same lawyers for access to migrants who were already arrested in the naval base in Cuba after lived illegally in the USA. Both cases are supported by the American Civil Liberties Union and submitted in Washington.

The lawyers also submitted statements that were translated by Spanish into English by two men who were held in Guantanamo Bay, four men were held there in February and sent back to Venezuela, and a Venezuelan migrant sent back to Texas. The men said they were kept in small, windowless cells, with lights around the clock, disabled sleep and had inadequate food and medical care. A man reported to try suicide there, and two said they were of the attempts of others. The men said that migrants were abused by employees orally and physically.

“It was easy to lose the will to life,” said Raul David Garcia, a former Guantanamo prisoner who was sent back to Venezuela. “I've been kidnapped in Mexico before, and at least my kidnappers told me her names.”

Another former prisoner, who was returned to Venezuela, Jonathan Alejandro Alviar's Armas, reported that fellow inmates were sometimes refused water or “tied up to several hours on a chair outside of our cells”, including punishment, also for protesting conditions.

“Guantanamo is a lively hell,” he said.

In another case, a separate federal action, a federal judge submitted on February 9, blocked the transfer of three immigrants from Venezuela in this state to Guantanamo Bay.

Trump says Guantanamo Bay can hold thousands of “the worst”

The White House and the Departments for Defense and Homeland Protection did not answer E -Mails immediately on Saturday to get a comment on the latest lawsuit. The two agencies are among the accused.

Trump has promised mass deportations from immigrants who live illegally in the United States, and said Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo”, has space for up to 30,000 of them.

He also said that he is planning to send “the worst” or high risks of “criminal extraterrestrials” in Cuba to the base. The administration has not published any specific information about who will be transferred. Therefore, it is not clear what crimes they committed in the United States and whether they were convicted or only charged or arrested in court.

At least 50 migrants have already been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and the lawyers of civil rights believe that the number is now around 200. They said it was the first time in the history of the US story that the government did not detain the state of state due to civilian immigration suspicions. The naval base was mainly used for decades to capture foreigners in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001.

A separate military detention center once had 800 people, but this number has decreased to 15, including the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Critics have been saying for years that the Center for Poor Conditions is notorious for prisoners. In a report from 2023 by a United Nations inspector, it was found that prisoners were confronted “persistent cruel, inhuman and humiliating treatment”, although the United States rejected a large part of its criticism.

Migrants say they were tortured or threatened before they came to the USA

The 10 men who were involved in the latest lawsuit came to the USA in 2023 or 2024, seven from Venezuela and the others from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The lawsuit said that the Afghan and Pakistani migrants were out of Taliban threats, and two of the Venezuelans were tortured by the government for their political views. One of the Venezuelans, Walter Estonive Salazar, said government officials kidnapped him after refusing to follow the stream of his city.

“The officials beat me, suffocated me and finally shot me,” he said. “I hardly survived.”

Salazar said he was convicted in the United States under the influence of “what I deeply regretted” while another of the Venezolans were charged with him. The men's lawyers claim that many of the people who were sent to Guantanamo Bay have no serious criminal records or even a criminal history.

Four Venezuelans said they were wrongly accused of being gang members because of their tattoos, including one who said his tattoo was a Catholic rosary.

The transfer to Guantanamo violates constitutional law, lawyers say

The latest lawsuit claims that the transfers against the law of men have a proper legal proceedings that are guaranteed by the fifth change in the US constitution

The lawsuit also argues that the federal immigration law prohibits the transfer of non-Cuban migrants from the USA to Guantanamo Bay. that the US government has no authority to keep people outside their territory; And the navy base remains legally part of Cuba. The transfers are also described as arbitrary.

Her first lawsuit, which was submitted on February 12, said Guantanamo Bay Bay “have effectively disappeared in a black box” and could not contact lawyers or in the family. The Department of Homeland Security announced that they could reach lawyers by phone.

One of the formerly imprisoned Venezuelans, Yoiker David Sequera, said he was allowed to make a call to the ACLU, but when he asked to speak with his family, he was informed that it was not possible. A current prisoner, Tilso Ramon Gomez Lugo, said that for two weeks he could “with no one in the outside world” for two weeks until he was allowed to make the lawyers a single call.

The lawsuit also argues that Guantanamo Bay “does not have the infrastructure” in order to keep the 10 men themselves. Garcia said part of the base for migrants like him, known as Camp 6, where he was locked up, seemed “at the last minute” and “not yet finished”.

“It was freezing cold and I felt like a chicken that is trapped in an incubator,” he said.

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