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Trump’s First 100 Days: Gitmo took early role in deportations prior to El Salvador prison deal
America’s most notorious federal prison, a terrorist detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, took center stage for a short period in the early days of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, when the administration began sending some of the «worst of the worst» criminal illegal aliens there.
Also known as «Gitmo,» Guantánamo is a 45-square-mile high-security naval base in Cuba and houses some of America’s most deadly enemies, including the al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks.
In one of the first moves of his second term, Trump authorized the detention of illegal immigrants at the facility shortly after taking office on Jan. 20.
Trump instructed the Pentagon to prepare 30,000 beds at the base to house «criminal illegal aliens» who pose a threat to the American public, adding that putting them there would ensure they would not come back.
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America’s most notorious prison – Guantánamo Bay – took center stage for a short period during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days when the administration began sending some of the «worst of the worst» criminal illegals to the prison. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. ShaTyra Cox)
At the time, Trump explained the decision, saying that some criminal migrants «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.»
The president said the move would bring the U.S. one step closer to «eradicating the scourge» of migrant crime in communities, once and for all.
Then, shortly after the State Department declared 10 migrant gangs – including the Salvadoran MS-13 and Venezuelan Tren de Aragua as well as several Mexican cartels – «foreign terrorist organizations,» the administration began sending migrants through Gitmo, with several hundred passing through the base.
Among those sent to the base were several «high threat» illegal members of Tren de Aragua, which is an international terrorist and criminal group linked to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Tren de Aragua – also known as «TdA» – has a presence in most major American cities and is linked to the high-profile murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the seizure of an entire apartment building in Aurora, Colorado.
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This image shows migrants boarding a military flight to Guantánamo Bay. (Department of Homeland Security)
The Department of Defense stated that the migrant criminals sent to Gitmo were being housed in vacant detention facilities and that the arrangement was only temporary «until they can be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination.»
Illustrating Guantánamo’s importance in the administration’s eyes, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made Gitmo his first naval installation to visit as secretary. In a social media post, Hegseth called Gitmo «the front lines of the war against America’s southern border.»
Speaking of the troops manning Gitmo, Hegseth said, «These warriors are directly supporting the apprehension and deportation of dangerous illegal aliens.»
However, the administration soon began running into snags, making it difficult to ramp up the naval base’s capacity to accommodate the 30,000 beds that Trump had wanted.
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President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon, led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to help establish a migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. ShaTyra Cox)
In early March, Fox News Digital reported that none of the 195 tents set up in Guantánamo Bay had been used to house migrants. According to two U.S. defense officials familiar with the matter, this was due to the tents not meeting ICE standards.
The officials said that the U.S. military was told to set up the tents without clear guidance as to what the standards for holding migrants are, and that the military had not received specific guidelines on what the tents need in order to be certified to hold the migrants. The operation to build more tents was halted in February, just several weeks after it started.
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Despite this, a congressional delegation of Republicans led by House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers visited Gitmo around the same time these difficulties were surfacing.
After the visit, Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., told Fox News Digital that «it is clear that Guantánamo Bay is operational and equipped to conduct these deportations.»
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Migrants board a flight to Guantánamo Bay. (Department of Homeland Security)
On March 14, Fox News Digital reported that the 40 remaining illegal migrants being held at Guantánamo Bay had been sent back to the United States to be held in Louisiana. Of those returned to U.S. soil, 23 were «high-threat illegal aliens.»
It is unclear whether the U.S. will again hold migrants at Guantánamo. Representatives for the White House and DHS did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment prior to publication deadline.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. has begun partnering with the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to send illegal gang members to El Salvador’s «Terrorist Confinement Center» (CECOT). The U.S. has sent several hundred Salvadoran and Venezuelan migrants to CECOT.
Fox News Digital’s Cameron Arcand, Michael Dorgan, Liz Friden, Jennifer Griffin and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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EXCLUSIVE: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman laid out the timeline for the Artemis Moon landing and discussed the current delay to the Artemis II mission during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
The agency announced Friday that Artemis III, Artemis IV and Artemis V will all be launched before the end of President Donald Trump’s second term. Artemis IV and Artemis V will be missions where astronauts return to the surface of the Moon.
«To be overwhelmingly clear, we did not stretch out our timeline or delay anything. What we did is insert additional missions, standardized, so we can actually achieve the national policy that President Trump set out to return American astronauts to the Moon, and build an enduring presence to stay,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital.
«Artemis II, we’re going to launch in a matter of weeks [and] go around the Moon,» Isaacman explained. «Artemis III will launch by mid 2027 with the aim to buy down risk and low Earth orbit for subsequent [Moon] landing attempts in 2028.»
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Fox News Digital that Artemis II will launch in early April and that additional standardized missions will enable astronauts to return to the Moon by 2028 under President Trump’s timeline. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)
The Artemis program was initially established by President Donald Trump during his first term in December 2017.
Isaacman is seeking to complete four Artemis missions under his tenure at the agency, while the Biden administration successfully completed just one non-manned test flight in 2022.
The NASA administrator was critical of the Biden administration for the delay in launches, telling Fox News Digital «the previous administration didn’t make any decisions over the last four years that need to be done.»
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Jared Isaacman defended the Artemis delays as necessary adjustments, criticizing the Biden administration for inaction and emphasizing a faster, more consistent launch cadence to build a sustained lunar presence. (REUTERS/Joe Skipper)
«That’s being corrected now,» Isaacaman said. «You need to standardize, you need to launch with cadence. That’s how you get back to the moon. That’s how you stay. President Trump’s 100% behind that.»
Artemis II was scheduled to launch in early February, though the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was transferred from the launchpad back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to repair a helium leak on Wednesday.
In response to the Artemis II delay, the administrator also pointed out that the three-year delay between the Biden administration’s last successful Artemis mission and the current one set the agency back.
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«You can’t launch a rocket this complex and important every three years, and expect to get it right,» Isaacman added. «There’s just, there’s just no muscle memory there. There’s going to be mistakes.»
«We’re not going to rush this, because, clearly, we’re, again, we’re relearning the same lessons, which means we didn’t get the technical root cause last time, three years ago,» Isaacman said. «We’re hoping, in a matter of days, we’ll have our arms around [Artemis II].»
The agency plans to complete four Moon missions during President Donald Trump’s second term. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Isaacman said that the current launch window for Artemis II is set for early April.
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The 43-year-old billionaire was sworn in as the administrator of the space agency last December. Isaacman himself is a space fanatic, having commanded the first ever commercial spacewalk in September 2024.
In the less than one hundred days that he has served as administrator, Isaacman has been vocal about his dedication to Trump’s mission to return Americans to the surface of the Moon and beyond — a daunting task for a mission that was last completed during Apollo 17 in 1972, more than half a century ago.
«The approach we were taking is the right way, and it’s consistent with NASA’s history,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital. «We didn’t go right to Apollo 11. We launched with frequency, and we continued to learn and buy down risk.»
America has not landed on the Moon since 1972. (Getty Images)
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«NASA, throughout our history, has launched, on average, every three months, our design vehicles from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, through space shuttle. Apollo 8 launched less than two months after Apollo 7’s splashdown,» Isaacaman said.
«This is how you get back to the Moon and be able to stay,» the NASA administrator added.
He also noted that funding for the missions and resources needed for success already exist at the agency, and that «we got everything we need.»
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One of the key components to ensuring the completion of each Artemis mission is labor, and Isaacman took issue with the large number of contractors that work with the space agency, yet are not employed by NASA itself.
Jared Isaacman, who has been outspoken about his support for President Donald Trump’s plan to return to the Moon, was sworn in as NASA administrator last December. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
When asked if he planned on transitioning contractors to NASA employees, Isaacman said, «100%.»
«One of the first observations I had in the job after visiting every one of the NASA centers is all of the core competencies that we either outsourced or lost over the years,» Isaacman explained. «Contractors are great and should contribute to NASA in areas that we are not supposed to be the best in the world at.»
«But when we’re talking about launchpad, launch control, mission control in Houston, those should be civil servants,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital. «That should be a core competency in NASA. We should be the best in the world at it. We are going to exercise the workforce directive that went out weeks ago to convert contractors to civil servants, rebuild core competencies.»
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The NASA administrator said that top companies who provide contractors, like Boeing, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, have told him that they support the timeline that would ultimately achieve Trump’s vision of returning mankind to the Moon.
«We have universal support in this,» Isaacman explained. «Support from every one of the prime contractors in this program. Lockheed, Boeing, ULA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and all of the congressional leaders that have space equities understand that this is the way back to the Moon.»
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Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaron este sábado un ataque “de gran envergadura” contra el régimen de Irán, provocando explosiones en Teherán y otras ciudades tras semanas de amenazas de intervención militar. Teherán respondió con el lanzamiento de misiles y drones en represalia, según informaron los Guardianes de la Revolución. Mientras tanto, diplomáticos estadounidenses presentes en el Golfo y civiles israelíes recibieron órdenes de buscar refugio.
“El Estado de Israel lanzó un ataque preventivo contra Irán. El ministro de Defensa, Israel Katz, declaró el estado de emergencia especial e inmediato en todo el país”, indicó la oficina del ministro en un comunicado.
En un mensaje en video, luego de que Estados Unidos e Israel comenzaran a bombardear Irán, Trump dejó claro que el objetivo era amplio: derrocar al régimen instaurado desde la revolución de 1979. “Vamos a destruir sus misiles y arrasar su industria de misiles por completo. Será totalmente—de nuevo—aniquilada. Vamos a destruir su armada”, afirmó en el mensaje publicado en su plataforma Truth Social.
Asimismo, envió un mensaje directo a la población iraní: “La hora de su libertad está cerca”. “Permanezcan resguardados. No salgan de sus hogares. Es muy peligroso afuera. Caerán bombas por todos lados. Cuando terminemos, tomen el control de su gobierno. Les pertenecerá a ustedes”, agregó.
Posteriormente, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, afirmó este sábado que Israel y Estados Unidos habían atacado a Irán con el objetivo de “eliminar la amenaza existencial” que representa la república islámica.
“Hermanos y hermanas, ciudadanos de Israel: Hace instantes, Israel y Estados Unidos lanzaron una operación para eliminar la amenaza existencial que representa el régimen terrorista de Irán”, señaló Netanyahu en un mensaje en video difundido por el gobierno israelí.
Según el primer ministro, la acción conjunta creará las condiciones para que el valiente pueblo iraní tome su destino en sus propias manos.
La Guardia Revolucionaria del régimen iraní anunció el inicio de la primera oleada de misiles y drones contra Israel, tras los ataques coordinados de las fuerzas israelíes y estadounidenses. “En respuesta a la agresión del enemigo hostil y criminal contra la República Islámica de Irán, ha comenzado la primera oleada de amplios ataques con misiles y drones de la República Islámica de Irán hacia los territorios ocupados”, indicó el cuerpo militar en un comunicado.
Pocas horas después de los primeros ataques contra el régimen iraní, Israel había detectado misiles lanzados desde Teherán y llamó a su población a refugiarse.
El Ejército israelí explicó que el estado de emergencia se trata de una “alerta proactiva para preparar al público ante la posibilidad de lanzamiento de misiles hacia el Estado de Israel”. En un comunicado difundido en redes sociales, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel anunciaron que, a partir de las 08.00 horas (hora local), “se realizarán cambios inmediatos a las Pautas del Comando del Frente Interno”, incluyendo la “prohibición de actividades educativas, reuniones y lugares de trabajo, excepto los sectores esenciales”.
Las autoridades israelíes también ordenaron el cierre del espacio aéreo al tráfico civil e instaron a los civiles a no acudir al aeropuerto. El Ministerio de Transporte informó que permanecerá cerrado hasta que las condiciones de seguridad lo permitan y que su reapertura será anunciada con al menos 24 horas de antelación.
La operación militar israelí ocurrió contra una zona cercana a las oficinas del líder supremo, el ayatollah Ali Khamenei, según la agencia The Associated Press. Por otra parte, el medio mencionó Estados Unidos está participando en los ataques israelíes contra Irán, según un funcionario estadounidense.
El líder supremo de Irán no está en Teherán y fue trasladado a un lugar seguro, según el informe de Reuters. Las autoridades iraníes bloquearon los accesos por carretera al complejo de Khamenei, en el centro de la capital iraní, mientras continuaban escuchándose más explosiones en distintos puntos de la capital.
Ataque de Irán a EEUU en Bahréin
Horas después de los ataques coordinados, Teherán también bombardeó con misiles la base de Estados Unidos en Bahréin, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Kuwait y Qatar. “Cualquier base en toda la región que ayude a Israel será nuestro objetivo”, dijo el portavoz del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes citado por la agencia iraní Mehr.
Según este medio, el régimen de los ayatolás lanzó ataques con misiles simultáneamente a la mayor bases en la región, la de Al Udeid en Qatar, a la de Al Salem en Kuwait, la de Al Dhafra en EAU y a la quinta base estadounidense en Bahréin.
En medio de esta creciente tensión, la Unión Europea (UE) pidió “la máxima moderación”, y afirmó que garantizar la seguridad nuclear es “crucial”. “Garantizar la seguridad nuclear y prevenir cualquier acción que pueda agravar aún más las tensiones o socavar el régimen mundial de no proliferación es de importancia crucial”, señaló la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen.
“Pedimos a todas las partes que ejerzan la máxima moderación, que protejan a la población civil y respeten plenamente el derecho internacional”, añadió en una declaración conjunta con el presidente del Consejo Europeo, António Costa.
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