THIS is the dramatic moment shackled migrants are marched into the hellhole jail Guantanamo Bay after being flown in from the US.
A second wave of prisoners was today banged up in the terrorist centre after Trump vowed to crack down on illegal migrants.
AFPOne of the first 10 prisoners arriving at Guantanamo Bay prison on Tuesday[/caption]
AFPThe illegal migrants were members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang[/caption]
AFPThe prisoners were transferred from the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas to the max-security jail in Cuba[/caption]
Prisoners on today’s flight – wanted for a range of violent crimes – were shipped from El Paso, Texas, to the max-security prison in Cuba.
They were members of the deadly Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
Today’s delivery came 48 hours after the first planeload which left Fort Bliss, Texas, on Tuesday – transporting members of the same gang.
Footage from the Departments of Defense of the first flight showed prisoners being frogmarched from a military aircraft with their wrists chained.
They were heavily patted-down on the tarmac before being escorted to vans and driven off into the darkness.
Amongst the 13 flown in today was a gang member convicted of murder, and another who admitted he is at large in Venezuela for armed robbery and attempted murder.
He reached the US after busting out of jail.
The roster of crimes the group is accused of also includes drug possession, robbery, assault, fraud, and entering the US illegally.
They will be locked up alongside 9/11 convicts and other terrorists.
The Tren de Aragua gang is an international organised crime group from Venezuela – designated as terrorists by the US.
The gang, believed to be over 5,000-strong, has been labelled “high-threat” by Homeland Security.
Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, said on Tuesday: “President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will hold the worst of the worst. That starts today.”
Trump’s plan, announced last week, involves expanding the base’s migrant detention center to hold up to 30,000 people—doubling the US’s current capacity for detaining undocumented migrants.
His administration is in talks with a private shipping container company to provide temporary facilities to house and process migrants before they are deported, according to Semafor reports.
GettyTrump has announced plans to send 30,000 illegal immigrants to Guantanamo[/caption]
ReutersU.S. Customs and Border Protection security agents guide detained migrants to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for a removal flight[/caption]
RexThe ten men were identified as members of a violent Venezuelan prison gang[/caption]
ReutersThe flight left from Fort Bliss, Texas on Tuesday[/caption]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly making plans with Phoenix-based Willscot to rent the company’s mobile containers.
The facility will be run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with US military personnel already on-site setting up tents to house the new arrivals.
Trump has made clear why he’s sending detainees to the heavily fortified naval base.
He said: “Some of them [the migrants] are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back.
“So we’re going to send them to Guantanamo […] it’s a tough place to get out.”
AFPThe detained migrants were frogmarched into vans to take them inside[/caption]
Not known, clear with picture deskThe prisoners arrived on the tarmac in Cuba in the pitch black[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
