Remove immigrants that were removed from Guantanamo Bay, satellite images appear

The United States dismantled large parts of the camp that was built to house migrants at the Guantanamo Bay base, the satellite pictures reviewed by the verification BBC.

President Donald Trump ordered the expansion of the current facility in Cuba to carry 30,000 immigrants shortly after he took office in January. However, only a small number was already held at the base.

The Pentagon official said about 38 million dollars (28.7 million pounds) on deportations and detention in Guantanamo Bay in the first month of operations this year alone.

But the new photos are now showing that about two -thirds of nearly 260 tents are installed as part of the operation as of April 16.

When asked about the removal of tents, an American defense official said: “This force modification represents a deliberate and effective use of resources – not a decrease in preparation.”

The camp began to build just one day after President Trump announced the plan, as the tents rose between January 30 and February 12. The visual construction continued until March 8, with the appearance of temporary structures scattered on satellite images.

The construction represents a great expansion at the Guantanamo immigrant operations center – a long -been used for some migrants and was distinguished from the security military prison used to accommodate detainees suspected of the United States from terrorist crimes.

The photos below show a mixture of about 260 green and white military tents in an area to the southwest of the comprehensive Bay of Guantanamo on April 1. But by April 10, a lot was removed.

Subsequent low accuracy images show that, as of April 16, a total of about 175 tents, there seemed to have a total of 175 tents had been dropped.

The number of immigrants who remained in the facility is not clear. Stephen Miller – White House Vice President – insisted in an interview with Fox News last week that the base remained open and that “a large number of foreign terrorist foreigners” are still there.

The White House failed to respond to a request to comment on whether removing tents is a reflection of Trump’s plans to expand the detention facility.

Although Trump pledged to send 30,000 immigrants to Al Qaeda, an American defense official indicated that publishing on the island was supporting a population of 2500 detainees.

The BBC analysis was estimated to verify the potential tent capacity that it is estimated at less than 3000 people, based on US military sleep guidelines.

Trump said in January that the expansion would be largely used to contract uncomfortable immigrants who are considered dangerous criminals or the risks of national security.

He said about the immigrants: “Some of them are very bad, so we do not trust countries in keeping them, because we do not want to return.” “So we will send them to Guantanamo … it’s a difficult place to go out.”

But since its establishment two and a half months ago, about 400 immigrants have been sent there, with more than half since they returned to the utilities in the United States. Others were deported, like 177 people sent to Venezuela via Honduras on February 20.

On March 28, a group of five Democratic Senators visited Al Qaeda. In a statement, they said they were “angry at the scope and wasted the misuse of the Trump administration of our army,” and described the camp as “apparently designed to undermine legal procedures and evade legal audit.”

The delegation of the Senate members said that the cost of transporting migrants from the United States and their detainees in the Gulf of Guantanamo has reached “tens of millions of dollars per month” and described it as “an insult to American taxpayers.”

Additional reports by Joshua Chetham.