Trump preparing to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo military prison: reports
Source: The Independent
Trump preparing to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo military prison: reports
Foreign nationals from the UK, Ireland, France and Germany could be transferred to notorious naval base
Alex Woodward
in New York
Tuesday 10 June 2025 23:57 BST
Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly preparing to send thousands of illegal immigrants to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as this week, marking a rapid escalation of the president’s mass deportation agenda which could target hundreds of people from European allied countries.
Immigration officials are considering whether to transfer as many as 9,000 foreign nationals, including people from the United Kingdom as well as Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, according to reporting from The Washington Post and Politico.
Officials are not expected to inform their home countries about their imminent transfers to the notorious facility, which opened in 2002 at the height of the War on Terror.
Most European allies accept deportees from the United States to their home countries, making it unclear why the Trump administration would first force them into a detention camp roundly condemned by international human rights groups.
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