Mexico has announced they will not be allowing Mexican migrants deported from the U.S., to be held at the detention camp located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
According to Fox News, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Mexico would rather have the migrants sent home, a position he explained in a diplomatic note sent to the U.S. embassy in Mexico.
On Tuesday, White Houss Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that flights have already begun to relocate detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, under the orders of President Donald Trump.
“President Trump is not messing around, and he’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world,” Levitt said. “And so, El Salvador has not just agreed to the repatriation of their own citizens, but also illegal criminals from other nations who will then be sent to their prisons.”
Leavitt noted both Colombia and Venezuela have agreed to take back their own citizens who have been discovered living in the U.S. illegally.
“Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights, and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country … I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantánamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway,” Leavitt said.
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Fox News further reported that Trump plans on expanding the detention camp to allow it to hold up to 30,000 illegal migrants. This was criticized by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who called the expansion plans an “act of brutality.”
“In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantánamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory [of Cuba], of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention,” Diaz-Canel said in a translated post on X.
