Federal court blocks Trump administration from sending Venezuelan migrants to Guantanamo Bay

A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan migrants to the U.S. detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

The decision Sunday by a U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico, where the migrants are being held, is in response to a legal filing by their lawyers that argues, “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access [at Guantanamo] is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction.”

The lawyers also argued their clients “fit the profile of those the administration has prioritized for detention in Guantanamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang," according to CNN.

This ruling was based on a lawsuit that was filed on behalf of the migrants by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and Las Americas Immigrant Advisory Center.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month to have the departments of Defense and Homeland Security expand Guantanamo Bay to hold thousands of illegal immigrants coming from the U.S. 

The George W. Bush administration established by the center after the Sep. 11, 2001, terror attacks to detain terror suspects.