Head of the Pentagon visits the Guantanamo base while more arrested

More immigrants scheduled to be deported from the United States arrived on Tuesday at the Guantanamo detention Center, Cuba, under the watchful eye of the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth, that visited the American naval base To receive information about the military efforts to support the mass deportation of Washington, he published on social networks that he witnessed the landing of the US cargo plane and added that he is proud to associate with the US agencies who work to «eliminate who have violated our territorial sovereignty. «

Two United States defense officials told the Voice of America that the C-130 that transported nine immigrants from Fort Bliss in Texas landed at the Guantanamo base at noon on Tuesday, and that the nine are considered «illegal foreigners of high threat.»

One of the officials said they were taken from the plane to the detention center, where they were kept under surveillance.

A third official told the Voa that an additional flight had been tentatively scheduled with more migrants for Wednesday.

All officials spoke with the Voa Under anonymity, since they were not authorized to talk about deportation operations.

The new detainees are added to 17 other detainees sent from Fort Bliss to the Guantanamo base on Sunday.

Neither the National Security Department (DHS), which leads the deportation efforts of the United States, nor the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) have so far answered questions about the identities of the identities of the identities of the identities of the arrested, their countries of origin or the crimes of which they are accused.

The Tuesday flight that transported detainees from the United States continental territory to the Naval Base in Cuba is the second since last Thursday ICE deported 177 detainees that had been taken to Guantanamo Bay earlier on Monday.

Of the 177, the officials had said that more than 120 were dangerous criminals, including members of the Aragua Train, a Venezuelan street gang designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization.

The other approximately 50 individuals had been arrested at the Center for Operations for Migrants of the Base, designed to retain non -violent individuals.

On Tuesday, Hegseth shared photos of his visit to the base on his social media account X, where he toured both the detention center and the migrant operations center.

«These warriors are directly supporting the apprehension and deportation of dangerous illegal foreigners,» he wrote in a publication. «We cannot thank them or their families enough.»

Pentagon Press Undersecretary, Kingsley Wilson, also published about the visit on her X account, sharing a video of the facilities designed to house «illegal foreigners of low and medium priority» before they are finally deported.

The commander of the southern command of the United States, which supervises operations in the Naval Base of Guantanamo, told legislators earlier this month that the installation for immigrants of the base had the capacity to house some 2,500 non -violent detainees. Efforts were being made to allow it to house about 30,000 non -violent immigrants scheduled to be deported.

The deportation efforts of the United States have caused criticisms of immigrant rights groups.

Earlier this month, the American Union for civil liberties and several other organizations filed a lawsuit against DHS, claiming that the detainees held in the prison of the Guantanamo Bay prison before being deported on Thursday had been unduly denied the Access to lawyers.

The DHS dismissed the accusations of demand.

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