Guantanamo Bay
The plane’s charter company works with the U.S. government to “move military personnel,” a spokesperson for the team owner’s company told HuffPost.
Shipping immigrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador is "the natural consequence and evolution of what we've seen throughout the last 20 years," J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer who has represented Guantánamo detainees, said.
The move was done quietly and just ahead of a key legal battle for the Trump administration.
Amnesty International led the criticism of the president's announcement.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.
The latest release brings the total number of men detained at Guantanamo to 15. That's the fewest since 2002.
The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has ruled the 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial.
President Joe Biden has refused to approve conditions that lawyers for the defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had sought in a possible plea bargain.
The DeSantis episode on "Vice" was titled “The Gitmo Candidate & Chipping Away.” It suddenly disappeared from Showtime's schedule.