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Guantanamo to hold ‘illegal aliens’: The Constitution v The President, 2.0 | Opinions

These days, there is a feeling that Washington, DC, along with most of the Western world, has returned to the thirties of the twentieth century, when fascism was public in the march. And the latest executive of President Donald Trump pledged to send 30,000 “illegal immigrants” to the Bay of Guantanamo, certainly adding Cuba to this atmosphere.

When I say the Gulf of Guantanamo, of course, I mean the United States prison abroad, which achieved a bad reputation in the aftermath of 11/9 as the first torture camp for those who were swept in “war on terror.” I have some familiarity with the place – I often refer to it as a resort from the chosen Caribette – where it represented dozens of people held there, brought the first case against the George vio Bush management associated with it again 2002. I visited the facility located within a naval base American is a total of 42 times.

Trump’s latest plans to use Guantanamo as a contract for illegal immigrants are very suitable for decades -lashes as a site of violations of American international law.

One of the results of the Spanish -American war for the year 1898 was the independence of Cuba from its European colonial masters, but it came at a price: In 1901, the United States wrote an amendment to the country’s constitution that allowed American intervention, and two years later they insisted on the lease contract, with no date of termination, on The wonderful port and 45 square miles (116 square meters) of land. The rent for this is currently 4,085 dollars per year, like a very cheap apartment in Miami.

Al -Qaeda was important to the American Navy a century ago as a coal station for American ships that patrol in the Caribbean and Southern Atlantic. Today, its military importance has decreased. However, it has proven to be useful in a series of American efforts to avoid human rights law.

In the early 1990s, the nearby Haiti turmoil threatened to flow to the refugee to South Florida. Any haiters who have been able to reach the American soil have the right to obtain all the rights of the legal resident. The United States reached a trick – that if the refugees were captured on the high seas, before reaching the American soil, these rights will never be suspended, because Guantanamo is a Cuban region technically. So the government has established a detention center called Camp Buckley there and the American coast guard “interconnected” highly -refugees before their fragile saying reached the keys to Florida, and all took them to the naval base.

the Constitutional Rights Center The litigation at that time brought challenge the legal imagination of Camp Bacley, but in 1993, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Sale V CONCERERTS COUNCIL That the strategy was legal. In his only opposition, Judge Blackmun wrote, “The majority of today … decides that the forced return of the Haiti refugees is completely legal, because the word” return “does not mean return- given that they did not reach the United States in the first place. However, when Haiti left the last Guantanamo in 1995, this appears to be a dark chapter of the law to be transferred to history.

It was not. After the eleventh of September, the Bush administration wanted to make a loud statement that he was “doing something” about the terrorists who carried out the attacks, all of whom died clearly that they were committing their crime. When the popular government pretends to take meaningful measures, they find that it is comfortable covering up the defects of patents in the plan. When the administration’s lawyers mention the ruling on the sale, they thought that if the detainees were transferred to Guantanamo, they will not have rights, and lawyers can remain safely away.

Starting January 11, 2002, the detainees began arriving. We filed a six -week lawsuit, on February 19, when we were able to find a family member in a British prisoner who could work as our customer. The legal consensus was that we will lose, and the detainees will not have any legal rights, and the wrong narration of the government will remain in secret.

I did not always agree, fortunately, the US constitution eventually proved more flexible than those who rejected expected. It took more than two years, but on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court was issued Laughter against BushRecognition of the legal rights of prisoners. She managed to visit the customers shortly. However, in the past twenty years, Guantanamo has still proven to be a case study on populist transcendence.

From the beginning, our plan was to open the prison to public audit, which would display the foolishness of the entire institution.

In total, there were 780 prisoners who were considered “worse than the worst terrorists” in the world. Today, only 15 years are still, which means that 765 have left, unfortunately nine of them in a coffin. To be released, the detainee must prove that it is “not a threat to the United States” – so, using their own scale, the government was wrong in about 98 percent of cases. This was because the United States bought most of the detainees with bonuses, then they tortured them in false statements about guilt. Among those who remained, the United States failed to condemn even Khaled Sheikh Mohamed for his declared role in planning on September 11, because he underwent any legal process using medieval torture as well.

There are a few plans on the date that followed very wrong. The hypocrisy of the Bush administration, which describes itself as the protector of democracy and the rule of law, was the yeast that was so strong that, even by 2004, David Rose quoted an American intelligence officer as saying, “For every believer, I” d, I think you created 10 other terrorists. “

This leads us to Donald Trump’s executive. He wants to take 30,000 “illegal foreigners” there – which I assume is 0.23 percent of logical. 13 million People who promised to leave the country. Instead of the worst terrorists whose predecessors promised, he tells us that the camp will now detain the worst illegal foreigners who threaten the American people.

Everything is a very poisonous tube dream. This does not mean that he will not do it, just as George W. Bush did. Indeed, on one of my many trips to Guantanamo, I wandered around the camps that have long been built on al -Qaeda – hundreds of millions of dollars that were already ignored in preparing the frightening expectations that the death of Fidel Castro would lead to a flood of refugees fleeing communist communist sin. Since the vast majority of the prison camp is now empty, they have a few hundreds of real prison cells that you also make.

But it seems that Trump’s lawyers have forgotten that all its victims this time will take from the American mainland, and therefore they are entitled to obtain full legal rights given by the constitution. Lawyers will be allowed to enter. The judiciary must be real, instead of the Kangaroo courts in the military commissions in Guantanamo. There will be no secrecy that protects the Bush project from a long time audit.

I was already 42 times. The 87th “terrorist” agents were released just two weeks ago. I assume this means that I may need to return to the Caribbean Resort several times. Once again the state of the constitution will be against the president. Again, my bet is that the constitution will win.

The opinions expressed in this article are the author of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the editorial island.

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2025-01-30 17:29:00

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