Judge Declines Reprieve Against Detaining Migrants at Gitmo

A federal judge denied temporary relief to plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits that challenged the Trump administration’s intentions of housing illegal migrants at Guantanamo Bay, The Hill reported Friday.

Washington, D.C., District Court Judge Carl Nichols denied requests for temporary restraining orders, ruling the plaintiffs failed to show “irreparable” or “imminent” harm, in part because there are no detainees with orders of final removal currently detained at Gitmo, according to the report.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Southern Command on Thursday said that no “illegal aliens” are being held at Guantanamo Bay after 40 immigrants were flown off the base on Tuesday to Louisiana, pending the judge’s ruling.

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