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The United States dismantled the considerable parts of the camp built to place migrants on Guantanamo’s military -maritime base, satellite images considered by BBC Show.
President Donald Trump has ordered to expand an existing object in Cuba to hold 30,000 migrants shortly after his post in January. However, only a small amount was in the base.
In the first month of operations in the first month, the Pentagon spent about 38 million dollars (28.7 million pounds) on deportation and maintenance operations.
But the new images now show that about two -thirds of about 260 tents installed within the operation have been removed from April 16.
When asked about the removal of the tents, the US defense official said: “This force adjustment is a deliberate and efficient use of resources – not a decrease in readiness.”
The camp started construction only a day after President Trump announced the plan, and tents on January 30 and February 12. The visible design continued until March 8, and scattered temporary structures appeared on satellite images.
Construction noted a significant expansion at the Migrant Operations Center in Guantanamo – an object that has long been used to keep some migrants and different from the high security military prison used for detainees suspected of crimes in the United States.
The photos below show a mixture of about 260 green and white military tents in the area southwest of Guantanama Gulf on April 1. But by April 10, many were removed.
The following images with a smaller permit show that as of April 16, about 175 tents were filmed.
It is unclear how many migrants remain at the facility. Stephen Miller – Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House – insisted in an interview with Fox News last week that the base remained open and that “a large number of foreign terrorist foreigners” remained.
The White House did not respond to the request to comment whether the tents were removed for the cancellation of Trump’s plans to expand the detention.
Despite Trump’s promise to send 30,000 migrants to the database, the US official noted that the deployment on the island had to support the 2500 detainees.
BBC analysis check the probable tent capacity, evaluated it by less than 3,000 people based on the US military principles.
In January, Trump said the expansion would be largely used to keep the migrants considered dangerous or the risks of national security.
“Some of them are so bad that we do not even trust the countries to hold them because we do not want them to come back,” he said of the migrants. “So we’re going to send them to Guantanama … It’s a difficult place to get out.”
But since its creation, two and a half months ago, about 400 migrants were reportedly sent there, with more than half after returning to facilities to the US. Others were deported, for example, 177 people who were sent to Venezuela via Honduras on February 20.
On March 28, a group of five Democrats visited the base. In their statement, they stated that “indignant and wasteful abuse of Trump administration” and described the camp as “seemingly designed to undermine the proper process and avoid legal control.”
The senators’ delegation stated that the cost of departure of immigrants from the US and detained them in the Guantanama bay came to “tens of millions of dollars per month” and called it an “insulting US taxpayer”.
Additional Joshua Cheetham report.
