The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.

The Trump administration is moving to house 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay — though the plan is seeing a few bumps in its road to implementation.

On Feb. 7, he and other Venezuelan men in ICE detention in El Paso were awakened and told they were going back to Venezuela, Purroy Roldan said. They were transported to Miami and put aboard a military plane – and realized they were actually going to Guantanamo.

Trump still wants to use the base for detention, but a scaled-down version is the likeliest outcome, sources said.

President Donald Trump's administration has put a halt to plans to house migrants in tent buildings constructed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, due to worries that the new facilities don't fulfil detention standards since they don't have power or air conditioning,

Civil rights attorneys are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

As part of efforts to expand deportations, the administration in early February began sending migrants to a detention camp on the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay ... a camp in Panama as plaintiffs.

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it's a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.

The lawsuit says there is no legitimate reason to send migrants to Guantánamo because the U.S. has ample detention facility.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an ...