Ten illegal aliens facing transfer from Texas to a holding facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on March 1. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed that the "arbitrary and capricious" transfers violated the Administrative Procedure Act, the First Amendment's due process clause, and the Immigration and Nationality Act, and requested a stay.

In the time since, seven of the plaintiffs have been sent packing, including Maiker Espinoza Escalona, who was identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a lieutenant of the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua. The remaining plaintiffs threw in the towel on Thursday, indicating they "no longer wish to continue litigating this case."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, chief among the defendants named in the lawsuit, had a two-word response to the voluntary dismissal of the action: "Suck it."

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While some online responded positively to the taunt, calling it "based," others, particularly critics on the left, characterized the Homeland Security secretary's message — which appeared on her official government account on X — as "cruel," "classless," and "disgraceful."

'How evil and depraved.'

Former Biden DHS spokesman Alex Howard wrote, "If we're lucky, it'll only take years to undo the damage Kristi Noem has inflicted on DHS, its workforce, and its reputation in just four months. This behavior is beneath the office and an embarrassment to the institution."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, was among those who expressed disbelief, writing, "This is the official account of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States."

"This is real," whined Ron Filipkowski, the editor in chief of the anti-Trump publication MeidasTouch News.

One user concluded, "They are the worst of us."

"This is DHS Secretary Kristi Noem saying 'suck it' in celebration over deporting people to El Salvador without due process," tweeted Democratic propagandist Harry Sisson. "She's celebrating constitutional rights being ignored. How evil and depraved."

Blaze News has reached out to a spokesman for Noem for comment.

As the plaintiffs taunted by Noem voluntarily dismissed the case "without prejudice," they could refile in the future; however, the government doesn't appear to think they have legs to stand on.

Attorneys for the government argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the suit; the court lacked jurisdiction to stay the government's exercise of discretion to send an illegal alien to "an appropriate place of detention"; the plaintiffs' claims were improperly venued in the District Court for the District of Columbia as they had never been held in the district; and Noem has the statutory authority to send immigration detainees to Guantánamo.

'Very thankful that they are off the streets of the United States and that we have safer communities.'

President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Jan. 29 directing Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States."

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The stated aim of this initiative was "to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty."

The Pentagon established Joint Task Force Southern Guard to work with the DHS to fulfill Trump's order.

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters there were roughly 70 illegal aliens presently detained at Guantánamo.

Noem told CNN talking head Dana Bash during a February interview at Guantánamo Bay that the individuals transported to the base "are the worst of the worst that we pulled off of our streets. ... Murderers, rapists."

"When I was there, I was able to watch one of the flights landing and them unload about 15 different of these criminals. Those were mainly child pedophiles, those that were out there trafficking children, trafficking drugs, and were pulled off of our streets and put at this facility," continued Noem. "Very thankful that they are off the streets of the United States and that we have safer communities."

The secretary noted further that efforts were underway to accommodate 30,000 detainees.

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ACLU misleads on illegal aliens at GITMO, ignoring ‘high-threat’ status

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week against the Trump administration, misleading and downplaying the "high-threat" status of illegal aliens detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On Wednesday, the ACLU issued a press release announcing that it filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of several immigrant advocacy groups. Eucaris Carolina Gomez Lugo, the sister of one detainee, also joined in the lawsuit. Her brother is accused of being a member of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Other family members of the detainees are also part of the legal action.

'They should change their name.'

The ACLU stated that the lawsuit aimed to allow the immigrant advocacy groups "to meet with the people being detained in order to provide them with legal assistance." It claimed that the Trump administration had "hurr[ied] immigrants off to a remote island cut off from lawyers, family, and the rest of the world."

The lawsuit estimated that the administration has detained more than 50 illegal aliens at GITMO since February 4. It accused the administration of attempting to "thwart access to counsel for immigrant detainees."

"For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government has moved noncitizens apprehended and detained in the United States on civil immigration charges to the Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba," it read. "And it is holding them incommunicado, without access to attorneys, family, or the outside world."

However, according to a press release from the Department of Defense, those recently detained at GITMO are “high-priority criminal aliens.” The DOD referred to the individuals as “high-threat,” noting that they are “currently being housed in vacant detention facilities.”

Further, the lawsuit’s use of the phrase "for the first time in U.S. history" is similarly misleading. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also authorized detaining illegal aliens at GITMO.

In response to the lawsuit, Trump's Department of Homeland Security not only denied the ACLU's claims but also sharply criticized the organization.

A DHS official told the New York Post, "There is a system for phone utilization to reach lawyers."

According to the DHS, detainees do have the ability to contact legal representation.

"If the AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union cares more about highly dangerous criminal aliens including murderers & vicious gang members than they do about American citizens — they should change their name," the DHS official remarked.

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Leftists claim 1st Amendment keeps TERRORISTS in the US

Immigration advocacy groups have sued the Trump administration over its ban on asylum access at the southern border, claiming that there’s a fundamental right for anyone in the world to freely pass over the United States border.

“Conservative Review” host Daniel Horowitz finds it all laughable, as do Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“It sounds crazy, but is there a free speech right to admit immigrants who hold pro-terrorist views?” Savage asks, adding, “When I hear this, right on the face of this, this sounds absolutely absurd.”

“Obviously, the ACLU and allied groups have threatened to sue Trump’s executive order, and to them, there’s a fundamental right for eight billion people in the world to potentially come here and file due process or discrimination lawsuits,” Horowitz says.

“There’s 130 years of case law demonstrating that because a sovereign nation has the right to deny entry and to admit people on such conditions as it deems prudent and necessary, there is no fundamental right,” he continues.

“What the Trump administration plans on doing here, when they talk about deporting Hamas protesters, so no one’s going to be sent to jail or fined for their views, we’re just going to say, ‘Hey, goodbye, go back to your country of origin that you evidently like so much and enjoy your life there,’” he adds.

Meanwhile, deportation is not a punishment but rather a consequence of national sovereignty.

“Since the time of the 1790 Naturalization Act, our founders made it very clear they only wanted people here who blended and fit into our society,” Horowitz explains, noting that many of the people here illegally aren’t the best and brightest.

“I’m very happy that the Trump administration is embracing both the legal authority and also the moral imperative to keep people like that out of the country, because look, let’s face it, we have plenty of problematic people here. Obviously, you can’t choose your natural-born citizens, but you could certainly choose your immigrants,” he continues, adding, “And we should only let in people that love America.”

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‘ICE Barbie’: The shocking reason leftists are after Kristi Noem

While Kristi Noem actively participates in ICE raids and publicly voices her support for law enforcement, the left is spending its precious time drumming up insults for the new secretary of Homeland Security.

The latest insult was born after Noem, who always looks her best, took to the cameras to explain the Trump administration’s path forward regarding immigration.

“Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantanamo Bay will be an asset to us. And the fact that we’ll have the capacity to continue to do there what we’ve always done. We’ve always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained. We’re just building out some capacity,” she said on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“Remember that Guantanamo Bay, clearly, by this president, has said that it will hold the worst of the worst. That we are going after those bad actors,” she continued. “Last week, I was in New York City, we were going after people that had warrants out for their arrest on murders and rapes, assaults, gun purchases, drug trafficking.”

“These are the types of individuals that we are targeting, we’re removing from communities, and that could end up having a stay at Guantanamo Bay,” she added.

While Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is thrilled to see Noem thriving in her new role, he’s not so thrilled to see how the left is reacting.

“The way the liberal media is treating her,” Gray says, “talking about her mascara and her makeup and the things that she’s wearing. When did that become OK?”

“‘ICE Barbie’ is what they keep calling her and Nancy Mace and Tulsi Gabbard. They’re all ‘ICE Barbies’ now,” he continues, adding, “and then they talk about the makeup they’ve applied.”

“When did that become OK for the left to be referencing things like that? Isn’t that sexism? Are you not supposed to comment on the way they look? Unbelievable,” he adds.

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Biden releases bin Laden bodyguards, other alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to Oman

As his days in office draw to a close, President Joe Biden has released nearly a dozen Yemenis from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba as part of a larger goal of closing the facility permanently.

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that 11 prisoners would be transferred to Oman: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj, and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.

Both al-Alwi and al Sharabi worked as bodyguards for the late Osama bin Laden, former leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and organizer of the 9/11 attacks.

Al-Alwi, who was also allegedly a member of Al-Qaeda, served on bin Laden's security detail in Afghanistan. A 2016 intelligence file noted that he had been "pardoned" for a number of infractions at Gitmo since his capture and suggested that he may still have an "extremist mindset" based on some of his statements while in prison, the New York Post reported.

In addition to working as bin Laden's bodyguard, al Sharabi, another suspected member of Al-Qaeda, was also allegedly involved in "an aborted 9/11-style hijacking plot in Southwest Asia," according to his 2020 intelligence file.

None of the 11 transferred detainees has ever been charged with a crime, though American courts have never firmly settled whether enemy combatants ... should be treated as accused criminals.

All 11 Gitmo prisoners are Yemeni nationals who were captured shortly after 9/11. They will all be transferred to Oman as part of a pledge from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in September 2023.

"The United States appreciates the willingness of the Government of Oman and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility," the DOD press release said.

None of the 11 transferred detainees has ever been charged with a crime, though American courts have never firmly settled whether enemy combatants captured on a battlefield should be treated as accused criminals, conferred with full due process rights and subject to the justice system.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is an exception. After more than 20 years at Gitmo, Mohammed is expected to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Fox News reported.

Co-conspirators Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, who have also been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2003, were also offered plea deals.

With the 11 detainees gone, Gitmo now has just 15 remaining prisoners, a tiny fraction of the number of prisoners held there at the peak of the War on Terror. In 2003, the facility housed 680 prisoners.

H/T: The Post Millennial

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