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Published on: 31/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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About 11 million unauthorised immigrants live in the US, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. The total population is 341 million. Debates about immigration have dominated US politics in recent years. Trump has promised to carry out “the largest deportation in American history”. But until now, the facility has been used to house only those whom the US describes as “illegal enemy combatants” – not undocumented migrants. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order titled, “Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity” This order directs the US secretaries of defence and homeland security to work. The Laken Riley Act is a bill that was passed by the Republican-majority Congress. It requires the Department of Homeland Security to “detain certain non-US nationals” who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. The act named after a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered on the University of Georgia campus in February. In November 2001, in the wake of 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, then-US President George W Bush signed a military order allowing the US to detain foreign nationals without charge indefinitely. Over the past two decades, 780 men and teenage boys (at least 15 prisoners classed as “juveniles”) have been held there, many without charge. In December 2002, Democratic former President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the prison. As of January 6, 15 prisoners remained in Guantanamo Bay after most people in the prison were released, having never been charged with any crime, and repatriated to their home countries or third countries over the years. According to a 2023 report by rights group Amnesty International, only seven inmates have ever been convicted of terror offences, including five as a result of pre-trial agreements under which they pleaded guilty in return for the possibility of release. Stafford Smith said there are only 500 cells and a few other spaces for people in the prison. If Trump detained 30,000 people, it would be a very small percentage of the total number of immigrants he has promised to deport.

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