A coalition of immigrant rights organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, aiming to stop the transfer of migrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay. The lawsuit represents ten migrants facing imminent transfer who are detained across Texas, Arizona, and Virginia. Since Trump’s return to office, over 200 migrants have been sent to Guantánamo. Attorney Kimberly Grano criticized the administration’s actions as unlawful. This litigation may serve as a foundation for broader legal actions targeting all future transfers of migrants to the controversial detention center.
"This lawless project to take people from U.S. soil and detain them at this notorious offshore prison must be stopped," Kimberly Grano, a staff attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project, said in a statement.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of ten migrants 'at imminent' risk of being transferred to Guantánamo from detention centers in Texas, Arizona and Virginia.
Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, his administration has sent more than 200 migrants to Guantánamo, where it has said it plans to hold them temporarily until it can find other countries to take them.
The litigation lays the groundwork for an eventual broader lawsuit that aims to block the transfer of any migrant to Guantánamo.
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