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Two men in shackles are loaded onto a flight to Guantanamo Bay in a photo released by the Department of Homeland Security.
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U.S. claims migrants held at Guantanamo are “worst of the worst.” Their families say otherwise.

The Trump administration has flown about 100 immigrants from El Paso to Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune identified nearly a dozen of them and spoke to relatives of three of them.

By Perla Trevizo, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, and Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica

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Mayfreed Duran, left, Yoiker Sequera, center, and Jose Daniel Simancas are among the roughly 100 people the U.S. government has flown to a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.

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