Sun Mar 02 14:44:57 UTC 2025: ## Former Guantanamo Detainees Condemn Trump’s Plan to House Migrants at the Prison
**Washington D.C.** – Sixteen former Guantanamo Bay detainees have issued a scathing condemnation of a purported executive order by former President Donald Trump to expand the detention facilities at the military prison to house undocumented immigrants. In a statement released today, the former prisoners, who experienced years of indefinite detention without charge or trial, described Guantanamo as a place where “law is warped, dignity is stripped, and suffering is hidden behind barbed wire.”
The statement highlights the parallels between their own experiences and the potential fate of migrants detained under the order. They warn that the same system that denied them basic rights and subjected them to prolonged abuse will be used against a new group of vulnerable individuals. The former detainees argue that the order not only enables injustice but guarantees it, denying migrants constitutional protections and trapping them in a legal limbo.
The group directly links the order to the continued existence of Guantanamo and the impunity enjoyed by the US for past abuses there. They argue that the failure to close the prison has allowed these injustices to continue and even expand. The statement concludes with a powerful call to action: close Guantanamo, end indefinite detention, and revoke the order. The former detainees pledge to continue their fight against the use of Guantanamo and to ensure that the world does not forget the horrors inflicted within its walls.
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