A federal court on Sunday granted a request to temporarily block the possible transfer of three Venezuelan men from a detention center in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid the federal government’s efforts to expand the detention of illegal immigrants at the naval base.
The three men, currently held at Otero County Processing Center in New Mexico, filed a Feb. 9 motion seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent a possible transfer.
According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the petitioners in the case, they have a pending court case challenging their prolonged detention in New Mexico….