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Trump administration sends third flight of detainees to Guantanamo

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posts video of what appears to be a third flight of "high-threat illegal aliens" to Guantanamo Bay .

Noem promises "Vicious gang members will no longer have safe haven in our country" Noem did not share details about how many detainees were offloaded from a military cargo jet or about the crimes with which they are charged or suspected of having committed.

U.S. Southern Command : Detention facility is now housing "over three dozen individuals".

Human rights groups have criticized the Trump administration's move to use Guantanamo as a holding center for migrants, some warning it would amount to a human rights catastrophe. At its height during the global war on terror, the detention facility held about 680 prisoners. As of January 6 , there were just 15 detainees at the facility, according to the Pentagon . Before being used to detain terror suspects, the U.S. naval facility also was used to house migrants from Cuba and Haiti in the early 1990s . Carla Babb , Patsy Widakuswara , Aline Barros contributed to this story..