Judge rules against advocates trying to help migrants sent to Guantanamo and to stop more transfers
Story by REBECCA SANTANA • 11h
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration and civil rights advocates attempting to help migrants who had been sent to the Guantanamo Bay military base — and trying to prevent further transfers — days after the Trump administration transferred all migrants out of the facility in Cuba.
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols refused to preemptively block a transfer of 10 migrants to the military base, and rejected a separate claim that migrants held at Guantanamo deserved access to attorneys. The judge's ruling in a Washington courtroom largely hinged on the fact that at the current time, there are no migrant detainees being held at the military base, which Nichols said undercut legal arguments that migrants being kept there or sent there would suffer irreparable harm.
President Donald Trump has said he wants to send the worst criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay as his administration attempts to ramp up mass deportations and expand immigrant detention capacity.
But civil rights groups have sued in two cases that the judge combined.
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