The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is quietly planning an official congressional trip (CODEL) to the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as more illegal aliens are being detained and sent there from the mainland.
The Floridian has learned that during a recent 4-day trip to Fort Buchanan on the island of Puerto Rico, members of the HASC were briefed on the current military status in the region and how the Army garrison situated in the City of San Juan, could become the “Tip of the Spear” for the Department of Defense in the growingly hostile Western Hemisphere.
In addition, staffers were in a preliminary discussion about putting together the official trip to GITMO to address the ongoing and aforementioned deportation of illegal aliens that the Trump administration is conducting across the country.
The majority of deported Venezuelan illegal aliens have made their way to GITMO.
Florida Congress Carlos Gimenez (R), sits on the HASC and who, at 7 years old, fled Cuba with his family back in 1960, spoke to The Floridian about possibly returning to the island after so many years.
“I haven’t been back since November of 1960, that’s when I left Cuba. I would think that it could get emotional for me going back to Cuba. I was born there. I haven’t been back there in 60 years,” said Rep. Gimenez.
Rep. Gimenez added that under the Trump administration, “a refocusing of America on the Western Hemisphere” needed to be established, saying that U.S. neighbors and partners have been ignored.
“We need to establish a refocusing of America on the Western Hemisphere,” he said. “I thing for too long, we have been ignoring our neighbors in our own hemisphere, and Russia and China have taken advantage of that and filled that vacuum.”
Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump asserted that criminal illegal aliens would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we are going to send them out to Guantanamo,” said President Trump during a White House press conference.
A date has not been set for the congressional visit to Guantanamo Bay.
