The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
The Trump administration transported another 15 immigration prisoners from Texas to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba Sunday, days after it transferred 177 Venezuelan citizens who were being held at the military base to Honduras.
A U.S. defense official confirmed to VOA that a C-130 military cargo plane carrying migrants left Fort Bliss in Texas and arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Sunday. A second defense official said all 17 migrants were assessed to be “high threat” and are being held at the base’s detention facility.
In a story published Feb. 20, 2025, The Associated Press reported that immigrant transfer flights arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday from Texas and Louisiana. While
The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.
In its first two weeks, the Trump administration announced plans to open detention sites in Texas and Colorado, and began utilizing Fort Bliss, a former Japanese American internment camp, to transport immigrants on military planes to Guantanamo Bay (GITMO).
The men told NPR they were kept in the dark about why they were in Guantánamo Bay, and were denied access to an attorney or a phone call with loved ones.
The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.
The Trump administration has said little about the Venezuelan men who were transferred from Texas to the U.S. military base in Cuba.
The Trump administration said that Guantanamo would house the most violent undocumented migrants -- but relatives of some detainees say they don't have criminal records.
Kevin Rodríguez, now back in Venezuela, said the uncertainty of not knowing how long he would be in the U.S. military facility was what worried him the most.