Guantanamo: The first plane carrying 10 immigrants deported from the United States landed on Guantanamo Island as part of the implementation of the executive orders to deport immigrants issued by US President Donald Trump. A US official confirmed that a C-17 plane took off from El Paso, Texas, carrying a number of immigrants heading to the high-security prison facility, which was previously used to detain members of the “Al-Qaeda” organization.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, the official indicated that the deportation flight landed in the evening at its destination, and the Department of Homeland Security stated that the ten people on board the flight are suspected of being members of the Venezuelan “Tren de Aragua” gang. However, the immigrants will not be detained in the same place as the current detainees in Guantanamo, and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office will primarily guard them.

President Trump signed an executive order on January 29 directing the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to ‘expand the Migrant Operations Center at the Guantanamo Naval Station to its full capacity’ to house undocumented immigrants living in the United States. White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt confirmed that flights carrying immigrants to Guantanamo had been underway since Tuesday morning, telling Fox News, ‘Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Nome are working to fulfill their promise to use the capacity of Guantanamo to house illegal criminals who have violated our country’s immigration laws and committed horrific crimes against lawful American citizens here at home.’