- United States
- Nev.
- Letter
Holding migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is a severe violation of human rights and due process. This decision flies in the face of American values and international laws regarding the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. Cutting people off from legal counsel, support networks, and basic protections is unconscionably cruel. Guantanamo was designed for a very different purpose - the indefinite detention of suspected enemy combatants without charge or trial during the War on Terror. Repurposing it as an immigrant holding center enables human rights abuses and erodes constitutional principles. Amnesty International rightly condemns this move as throwing vulnerable people into a legal "black hole." We call on you to vigorously oppose the transfer of migrants to this extrajudicial facility. Guantanamo's very existence is an affront to American ideals of justice and human dignity. Using it to unlawfully detain asylum seekers compounds the moral failure. This regressive policy must be stopped to uphold America's founding vision of liberty and respect for human rights.