To keep Guantanamo ‘illegal aliens’: Constitution V President, 2.0 | Idea

These days there is an understanding that Washington, DC, with most of the Western world, have been withdrawn in the 1930s, when fascism was openly on march. And President Donald Trump’s latest executive order is definitely connecting Cuba to this vibi to send 30,000 “illegal immigrants” to Gwantanamo Bay.

When I say Gwantanamo Bay, of course, I mean that the American foreign prison, which achieved the infamous in view of 9/11, was swept away in “war on terror as” for those people, so for those to have a torture camp. . I have a certain acquaintance with the place – I often refer to it as my Caribbean Resort of choice – as I represented dozens of people detained there, against George W. Bush Administration (Rasool V Bush) The first case was brought, back to 2002. I have visited a total of 42 times within the US Navy base.

Trump’s latest plans to use Gwantanamo as a holding center for unwarded immigrants are very suitable for decades long history of the base as a site of American International Law violations.

A result of the 1898 Spanish-American War was Cuban independence from its European colonial masters, but it came to a cost: in 1901, the US wrote an amendment to the country’s Constitution, which allowed American intervention, and two years later Emphasizing on a lease, with no termination date, on magnificent port and 45 square miles (116 sq km) area. The fare for all this is currently $ 4,085 per year, almost as a very cheap apartment in Miami.

The base was important for the US Navy a century ago, which was a coal station for American ships patrolling the Caribbean and Southern Atlantic. Today, its military importance has declined. However, it has proved useful in a series of American efforts to skirt the human rights law.

In the early 1990s, unrest in nearby hati threatened a refugee flow in South Florida. Any heautian who manages to reach the soil will be entitled to all the rights of a legal resident. The US came up with a Russia – that if the refugees were raised on the high seas, before reaching the American soil, these rights would never be attached, as Guantanamo is technically the Cuba region. So the government established a detention center called Camp Bakle and the American Coast Guard “contradicted the high -lieutenary refugees” before reaching its delicate floatla to the Florida Keys, and took them all to the naval base.

The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the litigation back and then challenged the legal stories of Camp Bakle, but in 1993, the Supreme Court ruled the 8–1 at the SALE VA Haitian Center Council that the strategy was legal. In his alone dissatisfaction, Justice Blackmun wrote, “Today’s majority … it decides that the forced repatriation of high-lotion refugees is completely legal, because the word ‘return’ does not mean returns”- seeing that they Never went to the United States in the first place. , Nevertheless, when the final Hotian left Guantanamo in 1995, it seemed to be a dark chapter of law which would be included in history.

It was not. After 9/11, the Bush administration wanted to make a strong statement that it was “doing something” about the terrorists who carried out the attacks, all of which were clearly reducing their crime. When a populist government is pretending to take meaningful action, they find it convenient to cover patent flaws in the plan. When the administration’s lawyers recalled the sales decision, they thought that if the prisoners were taken to Guantanamo, they would have no rights, and the lawyers could be safely excluded from the way.

Starting from January 11, 2002, the prisoners started coming. We sued 19 February, six weeks later, when we managed to find a family member of a British prisoner, who could act as our customer. The legal consent was that we would lose, the prisoners will not have any legal rights, and the false story of the government would be immersed in secrecy.

I always disagreed, and fortunately, the US Constitution finally proved to be more flexible than the future prediction. It took two years, but on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court recognized the legal rights of the prisoners and handed over to Rasul V Bush. I was able to visit customers soon after that. However, in the last 20 years, Guantanamo has still proved to be a case study on the populist overache.

From the beginning, our plan was to open the gel for public inquiry, which would highlight the stupidity of the entire enterprise.

Overall, there have been 780 prisoners in jail, who were considered the worst among the “worst” terrorists in the world. Today, only 15 are made, which means that 765 are left, nine of them are in a coffin. To be released, the prisoner must prove that it “is no threat to the US” – therefore, using its own metric, the government was wrong in about 98 percent of cases. This was because the US bought most of the prisoners with rewards, and then tortured them in false statements of crime. Those who remain, have failed to convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for their role in planning the US 9/11, as it has reduced any legal process using medieval torture on it.

There are some plans in history that have gone very wrong. The hypocrisy of the Bush administration, avoiding themselves as the protector of democracy and the rule of law, was so strong that, until 2004, David Rose quoted an American intelligence officer as saying “for every custody , I think you make another 10 terrorist. “

Which brings us to the executive order of Donald Trump. He wants to take 30,000 “illegal aliens” there – which I think out of 13 million people is an incompatible 0.23 percent for 0.23 percent that he promised to kick out of the country. Instead of the worst terrorists promised by its predecessors, he tells us that the camp will now “shut down the worst criminal illegal aliens that threatened American people”. This, he claims, is going to make America safe – apparently “terrorists”, in the same way, was done in the past.

All this is a very poisonous pipe dream. This is not to say that he would not do as by George W. Bush. In fact, on one of my many trips to Guantanamo, I went around the camps that were built on a long basis – hundreds of million dollars were already ready in the hope that Fidel Castro’s death As a result, there will be a flood of refugees. The devilish sin of communism. Because most of the prison camp is now empty, they have a few hundred real prison cells, which are also spare.

But Trump’s lawyers have forgotten that this time all their victims will be taken from the American mainland, and therefore fully entitled to the legal rights given by the Constitution. Lawyers will be allowed. The judiciary will have to be real rather than the Kangaroo courts of the Guantanamo military commissions. There will be no privacy that protected Bush’s project for a very long time from public investigation.

I have already gone there 42 times. The last of my 87 “terrorist” customers was released only a few weeks ago. I think this means that I may need to go back to my Caribbean Resort a few more times. Again this Constitution will be the case of V President. Then, my condition is that the Constitution will win.

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