A federal choose barred the U.S. authorities on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan males to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, based on a lawyer for the migrants.
Attorneys for the boys, who’re detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Mexico, requested the courtroom on Sunday night for a short lived restraining order, opening the primary authorized entrance towards the Trump administration’s new coverage of sending undocumented migrants to Guantánamo.
Inside an hour of the submitting, which got here at first of the Tremendous Bowl, Choose Kenneth J. Gonzales of the Federal District Court docket for New Mexico, convened a listening to by videoconference and verbally granted the restraining order, stated Baher Azmy, the authorized director of the Heart for Constitutional Rights, which helps symbolize the migrants.
Immigration and human rights advocates have been stymied in instantly difficult the Trump administration’s coverage of sending migrants to Guantánamo, partially as a result of the federal government has not launched the identities of the roughly 50 males it’s believed to have flown there thus far.
However the three Venezuelan males have been already represented by legal professionals, and their courtroom submitting stated they’d a reputable worry that they could possibly be transferred.
In accordance with the submitting, the boys are being held in the identical ICE facility, the Otero County Processing Heart, the place earlier teams of males who have been flown to Guantánamo in current days had apparently been held. The lads acknowledged the faces of a few of these detainees from authorities pictures offered to the information media, the submitting stated.
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