Illegal aliens held at Guantánamo Bay mysteriously returned to US

U.S. defense officials revealed that the illegal migrants being held at Guantánamo Bay have been returned to the United States.

All 40 of the illegal migrants at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are now in Louisiana after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aircraft transported them there, according to defense officials, who told Fox News, noting there are no remaining migrants at Gitmo.

Included in the group that was transported were 23 “high-threat illegal aliens” who had been held at the detention facility while 17 migrants were detained at the migrant operations center at the base.

“The U.S. defense officials were not told why the 40 migrants were sent back to the United States, and Homeland Security and ICE have not yet responded to any inquiries about why they were sent back and where in Louisiana they are being held,” Fox News reported.

Although 195 tents were set up to hold migrants at Gitmo, several U.S. defense officials said they have not been used because they don’t meet ICE standards.

The Pentagon was directed by President Donald Trump in January to ready 30,000 beds at the naval base to house “criminal illegal aliens.” But a few short weeks later, the operation was halted.

“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send ‘em out to Guantánamo,” Trump said at the time.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Guantanamo Bay last month, calling it “the front lines of the war against America’s southern border.”

Arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on the front lines of the war against America’s southern border. The protection of the United States’ sovereign territory is @DeptofDefense mission and we’ve moved swiftly to implement the Commander-in-Chief’s E.O.’s on border security.… pic.twitter.com/E4ZlTywX0C

— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) February 25, 2025

Hegseth served as a U.S. Army lieutenant at the base from 2004 to 2005

The administration deported nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants out of Guantanamo last month, with many of them being linked to the violent Tren de Aragua gang.

The Trump administration just deported 177 illegals from Guantanamo, sending them straight to Venezuela—including 80 linked to the brutal Tren de Aragua gang. pic.twitter.com/BUfPuzZTrG

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 21, 2025

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.

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