The move came days after human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking access to dozens of people who were detained at U.S. Navy Bases, the Guardian reports.
The Honduras government previously said that around 170 Venezuelans were scheduled to arrive from the US to Central American countries, and would then be transported “quickly” to Venezuela.
A lawyer representing some of the deportees said he learned about deportation on Thursday afternoon.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that 177 migrants had been deported from Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. The exiles included 126 people who had been criminally charged or found guilty, a spokesman said 80 of them were allegedly affiliated with the Tren de Aragua Gang. The spokesman said 51 had no criminal history.
The move has been denied their rights as counsel after the US Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last week seeking access to dozens of migrants who flew to a US naval base in Guantanama Bay, Cuba. It happens after saying that.
The Trump administration began shipping immigrants who were detained on February 4 to Guantanamo, describing them as “worst and worst,” including “criminal foreign murderers, rapists, child predators and gangsters.” He said that.
Human rights lawyers argued that the US government had not provided evidence that any of the detainees committed serious crimes, but some male parents said they were involved in fraudulent activities. He denied that he was there.
The website’s immigrant insider reported that relatives identified one detainee as Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera. The 23-year-old Venezuelan sought asylum at the southern border on Jan. 19, a day before Trump swears power that “millions of criminal foreigners have returned to where they have come.” He was detained.
“He’s innocent,” Castillo’s sister, Yajairah Castillo, told Spanish news agency EFE, denying that her brother is part of the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela.
The flight on Thursday came two days after Honduras President Xiomara Castro announced that he had reached a contract with the Trump administration to save an extradition treaty that is due to expire on February 28th.
The treaty has been used primarily to bring drug traffickers to justice in the United States, but was condemned by Castro in August.
Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina said Tuesday that the contract to save the treaty includes safeguards against the use of extraditions to thwart the country’s election cycle in 2025. Her fate as her predecessor, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was convicted last year on conspiracy to traffic drugs in New York. Castro has not been accused of fraud.
Reina also said the deal had something to do with immigration issues. Honduras is one of the few countries in the region that recognized the victory that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro contested in last year’s election, and although it has a connection with Washington, it has a sincere relationship.
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