Immigrant Rights Groups Challenging Trump's Neofascist Coup, Migrant Flights to Guantánamo & More

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_Democracy Now!_ co-host Juan González describes how immigrant communities are organizing to fight back against the Trump administration's crackdown before we look at a victory for immigrant rights.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. government from deporting three Venezuelan men to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the Trump administration has started to send thousands of immigrants for detention. Our guest, Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, sought an emergency order to protect the three men, who had been held for about a year at the Otero detention center. The men say they left Venezuela to request asylum in the United States but were rejected. When they saw others from the detention center transferred to Guantánamo, they feared they could be next and asked the judge to preemptively block their transfer. This all comes as the Trump administration recently withdrew temporary protected status for Venezuelans living in the United States. "We decided we had to move and prevent their transfer, their rendition, to the lawless space in Guantánamo," says Azmy. We also speak with Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Warren says that the United States is "facing a constitutional crisis on a range of issues, and it's just not clear to any of us whether this administration will actually comply with the rule of law in any context."

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