Trump Administration Begins Flying Migrants to Guantanamo

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The Trump administration has started flying detained migrants on a military aircraft to Guantanamo Bay after the president ordered a large-scale effort to prepare for thousands of prisoners to be sent to the US naval base in Cuba.

“Today the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an interview on Fox Business on Tuesday. A US military C-17 aircraft has taken off from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, according to a US Transportation Command statement to Bloomberg News.