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Vanessa Cárdenas on First Guantanamo Detention Flight: “A Dangerous Escalation” of the Trump Enforcement Machine

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Washington, DC — CBS News is reporting that the Trump administration has started plans to transport the first group of migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:  

Let’s be clear: this is an unprecedented move and another dangerous escalation of Trump’s costly, chaotic, and cruel attacks on immigrants. While the Trump team again rhetorically is emphasizing the supposed hardened criminals they claim will be housed at the expanded center, we suspect those actually to be detained and housed there will include immigrants who pose no threat to public safety but are instead caught up in the sweeping and indiscriminate nature of the Trump enforcement machine. Once again, it’s a policy not designed to advance public safety or good policy, but a plank in an extreme and unpopular agenda meant to avoid as much scrutiny as possible.”