The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

On Feb. 7, he and other Venezuelan men in ICE detention in El Paso were awakened and told they were going back to Venezuela, Purroy Roldan said. They were transported to Miami and put aboard a military plane – and realized they were actually going to Guantanamo.

Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.

President Donald Trump's administration has put a halt to plans to house migrants in tent buildings constructed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, due to worries that the new facilities don't fulfil detention standards since they don't have power or air conditioning,

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it's a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Trump has said Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo ... including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘ black hole ...

Honduras on Thursday also facilitated a handoff of deportees between the U.S. and Venezuela from a flight coming from Guantanamo Bay. The migrants arriving in Costa Rica will be bused to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will be ...

As part of efforts to expand deportations, the administration in early February began sending migrants to a detention camp on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay ... a camp in Panama as plaintiffs.

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