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June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
The federal lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), and ACLU of the District of Columbia, on behalf of a class of noncitizens detained at Guantánamo.
Guantánamo is home to one of the world’s most notorious prisons, used when the U.S. government has tried to operate in secret, without accountability.
The lawsuit charges the administration with illegally sending people held in the United States on civil immigration violations to detention facilities hundreds of miles away at Guantánamo Bay, isolated from the rest of the world, for no legitimate purpose. They are surrounded by military personnel, have no in-person contact with legal counsel, and are subject to punitive conditions of confinement and retaliation.
The groups are asking the court to halt the Trump administration’s illegal detention of immigrants at Guantánamo, citing violations of the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
The challenge was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The complaint is online here.
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