The memo shows us that we can send immigrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump’s promise to maintain the “worst” there

A government note obtained by CBS News shows that the Trump administration has created wide rules that migrants can be considered In Guantanamo BayAllowing officials to send non -criminals detainees there, despite the pledge to “worse” criminals at the naval base.

As part of the aggressive repression of migration, President Trump in late January Directed officials To convert facilities within the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into migrant sites living in the country illegally. At that time, Mr. Trump The immigrants said, “The Worse” It will be held at Al Qaeda, directing officials to provide space for “high priority foreigners”.

However, an agreement was not previously revealed between the Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Defense indicates that the Trump administration gave officials to be a widely estimated authority in making a decision Who is sent to the Bay of GuantanamoThe enactment of standards is not based on the severity of the criminal history of detainees or behavior. In fact, the memo does not mention any criminal evaluation. ((Read the full memorandum At the bottom of this story.)

Instead, the agreement, which was signed on March 7 by the best of the National Security Ministry and Pentagon officials, says that the departments agreed to use the Guantanamo base to detain migrants with final deportation orders who have “a bond to a criminal organization (TCO) or criminal drug activity.”

Officials “Nexus” identified in wide phrases. The memo says that the memo can be satisfied with the association, if immigrants with final deportation orders are part of a criminal group across patriotism or if they pay one “to smuggle to the United States.” This last situation can be used to describe many immigrants and asylum students who illegally crossed the southern American border, as criminal groups in Mexico dominate the illegal movement of people and drugs there.

The document says that the immigrants who exceeded the visa are not qualified to send to the Gulf of Guantanamo. But if the nature of the migrant entry is unclear, the memo allows officials to assume that the person who paid a criminal group to enter the United States and send it to Guantanamo if it descends from a nation “where the predominance of foreigners from that country enters the United States in this way.”

It seems that the conditions for transferring migrants to Guantanamo, as shown in the memo, at odds with Data By Mr. Trump and high -ranking members in his administration who suggested using the base as a detention site for dangerous criminals.

“The rules of the memorandum” are widely applied to any immigrant to the United States across the borders of the United States of Mexican. “

She said: “It is well known that almost every migrant reaches the borders of the United States and Mexico will have to have a kind of money to the carton that controls the lands on the Mexican side, directly or indirectly.”

Cardinal Brown added that the rules do not include “any individual evaluation” to determine whether immigrant detainees pose a threat, before being transferred to Guantanamo.

Kingsley Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense, confirmed the existence of the memo, saying that it “enhances DOD and DHS cooperation by clarifying roles and responsibilities, and enhancing effective and coordinated operations in Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.”

CBS News has arrived at representatives of the Ministry of National Security to comment.

The Guantanamo Operation is not the only efforts to migrate in the Trump administration to face the audit Exactly It was targeted. In the middle of March, for example, the administration deported 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, so that they could be imprisoned inside that country The notorious Mega. The Trump administration said they are all criminals and gang members, however Achieving “60 minutes” He did not find a criminal record of 75 % of Venezuelan deportees.

A high -level process, but it is largely confidential

The Trump administration for the first time began sending migrants to Guantanamo in February, only to transfer the Venezuelan there, including men who were accused of relations with the Trin de Aragoa prison gang. The first group of Venezuelan detainees was finally transferred to Honduras, where they were taken by the Venezuelan government so that they could be transferred to their homeland.

Since then, the administration has transferred migrants intermittently from different countries to al -Qaeda, before they were transferred to the United States or other countries. Administration officials have regularly flights to Guantanamo, but they provided limited details about the process, including costs and qualified to send them to the base.

What has been disclosed publicly, By cbs news Other media are that officials have transferred both detainees who are considered “high threats” and “low risk” to Guantanamo, including immigrants whose relatives have denied allegations of gang and crime membership.

Government guidance Immigrant detainees have identified as a “high” threat if they have violent or dangerous criminal records, the date of sabotage or alleged gang relationships. Low risk detainees are defined as migrants facing deportation because they are illegally in the United States, but they lack any dangerous criminal record-or anything at all.

Those who were sent to Guantanamo are sent and considered “migrants” in the sixth camp, a section of prison after September 11 still includes about dozens Suspect. Immigrant detainees, who are considered “low” risks, were transferred to the migrant operations center at al -Qaeda, a barrack -like facility that was historically developed in asylum seekers at sea.

Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense, said that there are currently 42 immigrants who were detained in Guantanamo, 32 of whom are located at the Immigrant Operations Center and 10 of the so -called “vulnerable” detainees in the sixth camp.

The March 7 note, which CBS News highlights other aspects of operations in Guantanamo. For example, it confirms that the migrant detainees who have been transferred there are still in the legal reservation to enforce immigration and customs, although the army provides access to its facilities for their detention.

As part of the agreement, the Ministry of National Security also accepted the circumstances at CAMP VI and migrant operations centers as sufficient to contract migrant adults, noting that it will not transfer children to the base. The administration agreed to send Ice or contractors to the base, including supervision of security at the Migrant Operations Center.

The memo makes DHS responsible for providing detainees services such as entertainment and religious residence; Determine whether immigrants get lawyers; And managing “involuntary medical treatment”, such as feeding strength during hunger strikes.

The DHS agreement also supervises the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo and to Guantanamo, which requires the administration to transfer immigrants from the base of no more than 180 days after issuing their deportation orders.

The army, as defined by agreement, is mainly responsible for providing security in CAMP VI and in the vicinity of the facilities. He also agreed to provide toilets and hygiene facilities, as well as medical care for both ICE employees and detained immigrants.

The memo says that the Ministry of Defense is committed to creating tents at the base for additional detainees, although these sites have not been used to detain migrants yet. However, the agreement indicates that these tents “do not have energy, lighting, heating/air conditioning.”

The efforts made to hold immigrants in Guantanamo are facing legal challenges by defenders, including in the American Civil Liberties Union, and the main opponent of the Trump administration in the Federal Court.

The US Civil Liberties Union claimed in the court files that the immigrants initially detained from others in Guantanamo, without reaching relatives or lawyers. The administration later said it had taken steps to grant immigrant detainees to reach lawyers.

ACLU also described the conditions of detention in Guantanamo as an effective, noting ads from immigrants held there. in One of those statementsThe Venezuelan man, who was previously held at the base, said he went on a hunger strike after he felt “kidnapped.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the main architect of the Trump administration’s immigration schedule, said earlier this week, there are no plans to stop using Guantanamo to detain migrants.

“It is wide open” Miller Say on Fox News. “Gitmo is open.”

Read the memo below:

Eleanor Watson

He contributed to this report.