President Donald Trump’s Plan to use US Naval Base in Guantáno Bay, Cuba, To prevent 30,000 immigrants hit by major legal, logistics and financial harrops since he was shocked by most of his own administration by notifying it. Today, as agencies have expelled responsibility for operations there and the basis of what is wrong, there is a growing recognition within the administration that it is a political decision to not only work.
Among the main issues, especially the administration of the Trump administration to slash spending the whole government, is the cost. The catch of immigrant immigrants in Guantamo means flying to them there, and the administration sometimes chose to use military planes to operate.
On Tuesday last week, Defect Pete Hegseth was in Guantánamo’s hand when a C-130 military carrying nine immigrants reached the base. The defense department is calculated at the cost per flight time to operate the C-130 at $ 20,756, so on a journey of $ 207,000 to $ 249,000 per detainee.
Costs for trips are lower when Charter planes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement are usually used for Deport Flights used in the military plane area. But the administration chooses for military planes of optics reasons, according to a defense officer. When using charter planes, surgery is still a heavy logistics lock and financial, especially compared to storage of inmates in mainland. Every flight includes at least one ice officer for each migrant, always more, as well as a medical team. Ice estimated The average cost of one of its regular charter flights at $ 8,577 per hour and the cost for “special high-risk charter” flights at $ 6,929 to $ 26,795 per hour, but those figures, an onboard medical professional and overflight fees, “which the Defense department estimates for the C-130 do not.
And space is planned to hold 30,000 immigrants far from ready. The tents built for this purpose lacked air conditioning and running water and did not meet ice standards for control, according to defense officer and further defense officials.
The two US’S Benefit officers and a Congress officer said the views inside the administration about how much immigrants are moving, even if the plan still wants to move forward. Officials say it clearly that Trump has announced Guantánamo’s plan to have other choices, including holding migrants in Fort Bliss, Texas, and other military bases and more efficiently. A scaled-down version of Trump’s Guantáno’s plan as the most important consequence, said officers.
At its topic use during the Trump administration to this day, Guantánamo was held 178 immigrants, all men of Manuuelan. On February 20, the Trump administration cleaned all the details, sent 177 back to Venezuela through Honduras and one returned detention within the United States. Although administrative officials often say that people sent to Guantánamo is the “worst condition, which has never been crime unprecedented in the United States, according to a Monday’s Homeland Security.
This article is based on the interviews of nine people familiar with the state of guantam and the dynamics within the administration about it. Everyone speaks in the condition of not advertising because they are not allowed to talk to the media.
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Requested for comment, Kush Neia, a spokesman of the White House, provides a statement: “President Trump received his agenda with many illegal migrants.
Surprise, then a struggle of power
Trump’s plan had problems from the moment he announced it on January 29, if it was far away from completion.
Trump took many leading officers of his administration in surprise when he made the announcement of a signing ceremony at the bill sign. This is the first to hear that a decision was still made to send migrants to Guantánamo, according to a DHS official and the Congress officer. There are no plans on how about 30,000 guaranteed migrants to work with agencies to play with its roles, which is the official of Congress and the two defense officials.
Naval base is not nearly preparing to hold 30,000 migrants Trump said it will do. At Trump’s announcement time, it may have a small part of that, according to two Biden administration officials familiar with capacity limits.
A Purso in the Putil Anger and Icile and Ice, part of DHS, quickly began to talk to migrants when they arrived at Guantána, according to two defense officials and a defense officer.
Dealing with a budget deficit even before Trump swears, ice is struggling to meet the steps of arrest and defending Trump. The acting director is the administration placed in place reassigned in the last monthAfter Trump and Border Czar Tom Hanan expressed anger that the number of people expelled was not higher.
Operation management falls in IMI field office because military members cannot legally associate with detention immigrants, two defense officers have been found. But staff with no supply, the officer of Congress and the DHS officer said. Ice leadership required agents to be sent to the management of detainees in Guantánamo back to the mainland making arrests.
The military, concerned that it was blamed if the effort failed, originally decreases guantamam resources, according to two defense officials. The Pentagon sent in about 1,110 troops and supported staff with equipment to support the mission even if it has not received clear policy guidance, officials say.
Military members began to set thousands of tents but no clear guidance about what the tents should be fulfilled in ice standards for keeping immigrants, the two defense officials said. They say the military is looking forward to get a memorandum to understand with details about the tents earlier than last Friday but that has not yet received this specific guide. The military has no money in changes or upgrades, and no one has sent it to make or pay for them, the officers said. .
DHS only sent a staff to guard the detention operations and seven contractors when the first migrants arrived in Guantánamo, and did not send it up to arrive at first three planes.
In a continuous lack of resources, the military begins with many staff to support the mission, including cooks, doctors and defense officials.
For several weeks, DHS did not send any guantánero translator, and military members gave services for immigrants there, both defense officials said.
The memorandum of understanding works will cover guantánamo operations continuing, one of what defense officials said. But both defense officers say it is unclear by who will pay the military for money spent on efforts to date, including trips.
More than the cost problem of military trips, some members of the Congress received from the Department Department ‘commanders who talked to officers and southern military orders.
Some democratic congressions believe that military flights rest in Shaky Lawy land. Usually, the Congress officer said, the standard defense defense method is to give an opinion that an activity is legal before it begins. In this case, Congress official said, The Pentagon relies on a DHS memo that says DHS legal advice allowed the military to conduct trips. The Pentagon has not created its own translation of that law addressed by any military forces involved in Guantánam’s efforts, the officer said.
Three weeks ago, between base issues, a group of bipartisan congested congested personnel traveling Guantánamo to check operations. But travel was suddenly canceled by defect Pete Hegseth, who said the place was not willing to accept the delegation, according to a congress plan to attend. The trip was not scheduled.
Hegseth himself visited the base last week, carried the friendly media: his former Fox News Colleue Laura Ingram.
