The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.

Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.

Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.

CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.

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    85 hours ago

    Non-citizens detained in war don’t have the same rights as US citizens.

    Some of those people were guilty and should have been tried and jailed here (provided they could safely be held here).

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      74 hours ago

      Some of those people were guilty and should have been tried and jailed here

      if so, why weren’t they tried and sentenced?

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        24 hours ago

        Because placing them in Guantanamo meant no one had to actually figure out where/how to house these people safely.

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          32 hours ago

          Isn’t that what jails are for? in USA you have a ton of those I hear… if these people were guilty of anything, surely there would be zero trouble charging them (specially in the Kangaroo Military courts of the USA). Once convicted you can put them in any jail of your liking

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            12 hours ago

            Yes, and keeping these people safe in US federal prisons was going to be difficult. Many of them would have been murdered/assaulted due to how poorly the US manages the prison system.

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              21 hour ago

              So instead they are kept uncharged and untried forever in Guantanamo??? where they are nicely safe and comfortable and not being tortured at all? for THEIR safety? got it

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                11 hour ago

                “Because placing them in Guantanamo meant no one had to actually figure out where/how to house these people safely.”

                I refer you back to my initial comment