5 Senate Democrats are heading to Guantanamo Bay—to not demand justice for People terrorized by violent overseas gangs, however to protest the detention of members of the infamous Tren de Aragua cartel, a brutal prison enterprise originating in Venezuela with ties to trafficking, extortion, and homicide.
The delegation contains Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and self-proclaimed Unbiased Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats. The journey was led below the guise of “congressional oversight.”
“Democrats are heading to Guantanamo Bay [Friday] for oversight, together with Sens. Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Angus King (I), Gary Peters and Alex Padilla,” Semafor congressional bureau chief Burgess Everett.
This go to follows months of Democrat outrage over the usage of Guantanamo Bay to detain overseas nationals with suspected ties to worldwide terrorist organizations like Tren de Aragua.
Progressive lawmakers have echoed the novel left’s speaking factors, prioritizing “rights” for overseas terrorists over the security of Americans.
“Guantanamo Bay has no place in our immigration system. This facility is thought for its unrelenting human rights abuses and its use to deal with immigrants is essentially fallacious,” mentioned Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-OR).
“I cannot stand by whereas this administration targets and abuses our immigrant neighborhood for political achieve. I’ll proceed to steer Democrats in demanding not simply transparency—however actual motion.”
The Democrat calls for embrace:
- An instantaneous halt to transfers of immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.
- An in depth report on previous or potential transfers to the ability.
- Entry to counsel for any previous current, or potential detainee.
- A full accounting of presidency expenditures associated to this detention program.
What’s lacking? Any point out of the victims. No calls for for justice for the People assaulted, robbed, or killed by cartel members who ought to have by no means set foot on U.S. soil.
Whereas Republicans have been pushing for harder immigration enforcement, border safety, and powerful motion in opposition to violent overseas gangs, Senate Democrats seem extra dedicated to virtue-signaling and appeasing the open-borders foyer.
