Gitmo should be closed rather than expanded – San Bernardino County Sun

With all the continuing chaos, it is difficult to sort the serious proposals of the new president from his difficult performances. Donald Trump, for example, shook the financial markets with his plan to impose a 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but things calmed down after he silent these unscrupulous actions.

Similarly, his plan for expanding the arrest of the US military bay in Cuba may also fall apart when reality hits, but we take his promise seriously and literally. In an executive order, Trump ordered the “Defense Minister and the Secretary of the Homeland Security to … to expand the migrant operation center in the Guantanamo Naval Gulf to full capacity.”

This would mean a doubling of the migrant facility, separately from the military prison, which houses suspected terrorists-to accommodate “high-priority criminal aliens”. As Reuters reports that the migrant part is usually housed, running from Cubans and Haitians detained at sea. No one opposes the removal of what Trump’s team calls “the worst of the worst”, but the Gitmo enlargement is fraught with problems.

For starters, the administration’s promise offers poor optics. “(T) The symbolic association between the Military Retention Center and the migrant camp … will probably further enhance migrants,” CNN reports. We have never liked the idea of ​​describing in detail people on the shore, where federals use it as a “outfit out of the reach of US law,” as the network added.

Trump’s supporters assure us that the federals will treat the accused immigrant appropriately, but this administration gently said does not seem particularly involved in norms or constitutional restrictions.

Even during the height of this anti-terrorist rage, this editorial board called on the Federal Government to close the facility. Some detainees have been closed for years and the accusations against them have never been proven and the proper process has never been provided. The Feders have run the facility for 23 years, with 39 men still detained endlessly – most of whom have never been charged with a crime. The only bright side is that Trump’s plan can again focus attention on this transvestite.