Noem reveals 2nd flight of 'dangerous criminal aliens' left for Gitmo ahead of her visit

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced connected Friday that a 2nd formation to Guantanamo Bay carrying "dangerous transgression aliens" had departed a time earlier – conscionable arsenic she is heading to the tract wherever up to 30,000 migrants could yet beryllium held.

"A 2nd formation of unsafe transgression aliens took disconnected for Guantanamo Bay yesterday. ALL are known pack members from Venezuela," she said connected X.

She said that those connected committee included an migrant who confessed to homicide and different wanted successful Venezuela for escaping jailhouse and for aggravated robbery with a weapon/intent to perpetrate homicide.

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This representation shows migrants boarding a subject formation to Guantanamo Bay. (Department of Homeland Security)

Other crimes said to beryllium committed by passengers see weapons trafficking, robbery, cause distribution, battle and impersonation fraud.

Fox News reported Thursday that DHS had said determination were 13 Venezuelan men connected the plane, immoderate of whom are suspected members of Tren de Aragua.

The Thursday formation was the 2nd aft a akin formation connected Tuesday. Noem volition sojourn the Guantanamo Bay installation connected Friday, erstwhile she volition spot the detention and processing halfway and person tours and briefings connected the site.

President Donald Trump announced past week that helium was instructing the Pentagon to hole to clasp 30,000 nationals astatine the subject base.

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Homeland Security Kristi Noem joins an ICE raid successful New York City connected Tuesday. Noem said communities volition beryllium safer due to the fact that of targeted raids that spell aft transgression amerciable immigrants. (Department of Homeland Security)

About 380 work members are supporting the holding operations astatine Naval Station Guantanamo, U.S. Southern Command said Tuesday, adding that the fig of work members volition proceed to fluctuate based connected DHS requirements.

The Department of Defense (DOD) stated that these migrant criminals are being housed successful vacant detention facilities. The DOD said that is lone a impermanent statement being made to "ensure the harmless and unafraid detention of these individuals until they tin beryllium transported to their state of root oregon different due destination."

DHS clarified that the Guantánamo Bay situation volition beryllium utilized to location lone "the worst of the worst" criminals.

It is portion of a broader wide deportation cognition launched by the Trump medication connected time 1 successful office. President Trump declared a nationalist exigency astatine the borderline and deployed the subject to the borderline arsenic portion of a rapid-fire bid of measures to ace down connected amerciable immigration.

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DHS has since taken a fig of measures to escaped up ICE agents to apprehension and deport amerciable immigrants, and officers are often arresting implicit 1,000 a day.

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Fox News Digital reported connected Thursday that immoderate releases of amerciable immigrants from ICE custody volition present request the signature of the acting director, portion the bureau has besides requested an apportionment of astir $575 cardinal from the Office of Management and Budget arsenic an beforehand of its backing for the twelvemonth successful bid to beryllium capable to enactment quicker and get different measurement person to a reported people of 100,000 beds and 1 cardinal removals a year.

Fox News' Alexis McAdams, Peter Pinedo and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.