Guantanamo: Cuba detention center where Tramp plans to send thousands of illegal migrants – BBC News in Serbian

The tramp administration plans to transfer at least 9,000 migrants without documents in Gvantanamo Bay, American media reported.

Migrants, including hundreds of Europeans are believed, will be housed for a short period in the US Maritime Base in Cuba before they are deported into their home countries.

In January, American President Donald Tramp ordered the expansion of the Detention Center for Migrants in Guantanamo, which is believed to be about 500 people currently, with the aim of settling as much as 30,000.

But why does America have one such facility in Cuban territory and what do we know about him?

What is the American Maritime Base used for Gwantanamo?

Govantanamo Bay is one of the most expensive military bases that leads America, and probably the most controversial.

He became notorious as a prison for suspected terrorists caught after the attack 11. September 2001. years, and many detainees were there for years without them was officially raised by the indictment or the trial was officially filed against them.

Moreover, Gavantanamo Bay was elected as a position for prison, because it was not located on American soil, which allows the American government to circumvent domestic legal mechanisms for protection.

The base had 800 prisoners at its peak, but there are currently 15 foreign nationals suspected of terrorism, among them Halid Sheik Muhammad, a man accused of devising Attacks on the USA 11. September 2001 years.

Several presidents from the Democratic Party, among them Barak Obama, greeded that they will abolish prison, but they did not meet the promise.

Guantanamo has also been used long for accommodation of migrants in a separate field of military prison, which is a practice criticizing some human rights groups.

The American government has been served with Guantanam for ‘processing’ (examining) people overtensive at sea, especially Cuban, Haitian and Dominican.

The largest number of migrants was located during the 1990s, when the coup on Haiti led to Haiti to escape thousands of people from the army on crowded ships.

Then in 1994. The Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that anyone wants to leave the island could do it without any obstacles and tens of thousands of people came to the sea by providing the so-called « raft crisis ».

Currently, the facility is known as Gwantanamo’s migrant operational center (GMOC) and takes only a small part of the former barracks.

It will have to be significantly expanded to accommodate 30,000 migrants as imagined the tramp administration.

In April, satellite images showed that large parts of the camp were removed.

Tramp is 29. January signed the entry into force of the so-called Laken Rajli law, which requires that migrants without official documents were arrested due to theft or violent crimes must remain in prison until the start of the trial.

The bill was named after the students for the Nurses from Georgia who killed Venezuelan Migrant last year.

It was an early legislative victory for the administration, which promised to tighten the control of the border during the campaign.

Tramp previously suggested that migrants could be transferred there directly after the American coast guard was intercepted at sea and that « the highest » detention standards will be applied.

He claims that the institution will double the American capacity of migrant holding capacity that do not possess official documents.

Migrant’s detention facilities in Guantanam will be used for the « worst of the worst, » officials of the administration, which is the term used by the Christian Security Minister of Homeland NOEM and « Emperor limits » Tom Homan.

The statement of the White House was less specifically, proving that the extended facility will « provide additional detention space for foreign priority criminals that are illegally present in America and to settle the accompanying needs of immigration services. »

It is not known how much the facility will cost even when it will be completed.

Pentagon spent about 38 million dollars on deportation and detention operations in Gavantanamo only in the first month of this year, said the Ministry of Defense officials.

Asked by journalists in the White House in January, Noem said only that money would be separated through « reconciliation and appropriation ».

What are the reactions to the tramp plan?

Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Kanel called the tramp plan « Brutal act ».

« The new American government announced the closure in the maritime base of Guantanamo, which is in an illegally occupied migrants, which will be accommodated in addition to famous torture and illegal detention, » Diaz-Kanel was written by the Diaz-Kanel on the social network IX.

« An obvious reason for anyone who cares about human rights is that the legal procedure can easily be denied to them and to be indefinitely, » says Den Technor, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon.

DIPA Alagesan, a senior supervisory lawyer at the international project to help refugees (IRAP), described a tramp plan for increasing the number of detained migrants in Guantanam as a « terrifying opportunity ».

In the 2024 report. Year, IRAP accused the American government for secret posture of migrants in « inhumane » conditions for an indefinite period after they were detained at sea.

« These refugees are held indefinitely in prison conditions.

« They do not have access to the external world and are detained in the Criminal System, which leads State Department, the Ministry of Homeland Security and other private horrors, with very little or without transparency or responsibility, » writes in the report.

Vins Voren, CEO of the New York Center for Constitutional Laws, lawyers represented by dozens of men enclosed in the base of 9/11, said this decision would « need us all horrible ».

The center « sends a clear message: migrants and asylum seekers are represented as a new terrorist threat, which deserves to be tremendously in island prison, separated from legal and social services, » said in a statement.

Migrants who contacted IRAP, other detained refugees and former employees in the Migrant Operations Center Guantanamo (GMOC) described the facility as « dilapidated, and with sewage problems ».

« Detainees are denied confidential telephone conversations, even with their lawyers, and punish them if they dare to share the details of their abuse, » the organization said.

Why does America have a base in Cuba?

America was rented by Bay Guantanamo from Cuba for more than one century, and the roots are pulled from the consequences of the 1998. Spanish war. Years.

After America defeated Spain, Cuba gained independence under the conditions given by America, including the right to interfere in Cuban’s business and the right to lease land for the maritime base.

America and Cuba were 1903. signed an agreement on the lease that America gave him control over Gavantanamo Bay.

The agreement has enabled America a permanent lease of the base, in exchange for the annual Rent of $ 2,000 in gold marks.

This sum later was modified in 1934. year into value equal to $ 4,085, but the payment remained mostly symbolic.

Cuba opposes that lease and systematically rejects nominal American payments.

America admits that Cuba retains sovereignty over this small part of the island, but the American presence there a long time ago the source of tension between Washington and Havana.

After Cuban Revolutions In 1959, the Government of Fidela Castra began to demand the return of Guantanas, claiming that the lease was imposed by force and was not valid for international regulations.

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