Weeks after the FBI Anchorage Field Office released pictures showing their agents detaining unnamed men as part of what the agency described as “supporting” the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement in Alaska, ACLU of Alaska leaders explained part of a national American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed Wednesday is to...
The Statement comes as the national ACLU and other immigration rights organizations file suit against Trump administration demanding access to detaineesshowing their agents detaining unnamed men as part of what the agency described as “supporting” the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement in Alaska, ACLU of Alaska leaders explained part of a national American Civil Liberties Union, with other immigration rights organizations against the Trump Administration, is to determine...
“Even in the face of significant public concern about this unprecedented action, the government has offered no legal authority for the transfer of individuals in immigration custody from within the United States to Guantánamo,” the suit states, going on to demand access to immigrants who have been detained.
The day before the ACLU lawsuit was filed, Trump Administration “border czar” Tom Homan would not comment when reporters asked if President Donald Trump was still committed to turning Guantánamo Bay into a full migrant detention center, instead saying he is not satisfied with the number of arrests U.S. immigration officials are making.
“We just want to make it really clear that people who might not be here documented, it would be the equivalent of someone who violated like tax code, that’s also a violation of civil code,” Barker said. “So the assumption that all people who come here undocumented are criminals by nature of how they came here is just also not true.”
“We have not received any direct reports of people who have been sent to Guantánamo Bay as it relates to this lawsuit in Alaskans being sent,” she said. “However, the fact that we do not have a detention center here makes it likely that could be a place where people are sent.
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