Immigrant Detainees Want Court to Pause Guantanamo Transfers

Noncitizens in US custody are challenging the Trump administration’s bid to detain them in Guantanamo Bay, which they say is illegal because the military base is in Cuba.

The Immigration and Nationality Act doesn’t see Cuba as a valid removal destination, nor does it allow the US to detain people outside the US, the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia says. The plaintiffs from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expressed concern that the naval station is ill-suited to hold so many detainees, especially when the US has ample capability on its own soil.

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