A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from transferring three Venezuelan illegal aliens, currently detained in New Mexico, to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. This legal action challenges the administration’s broader initiative to relocate certain detained illegals to Guantánamo Bay.
Attorneys for the illegal aliens claim they are not members of the Tren de Aragua gang. They also cite a lack of “availability of legal process and counsel” for the accused.
Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales, a Barack Obama appointee, granted the temporary restraining order, according to attorney Jessica Vosburgh, who represents the three men.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had recently begun transporting individuals it identifies as “criminal illegal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay, utilizing vacant detention facilities at the U.S. military base. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem emphasized that this measure is temporary, aiming to ensure the secure detention of these individuals until they can be repatriated or relocated to appropriate destinations.
The court’s decision underscores the ongoing legal and ethical debates surrounding the detention and treatment of immigrants, particularly concerning the use of military facilities like Guantánamo Bay for housing detainees.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
