A judge has stopped President Donald Trump from sending some illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.

Fox News now reports that the Trump administration has gotten around this by sending some of these individuals back to their home country.

As we will see, though, this does not mean that Trump is not putting Guantanamo Bay to good use. There will be more on this in a moment.

First, though, we will look at how the Trump administration handled the judge's attempt to block it.

"Removed to Venezuela"

Just recently, a judge told the Trump administration that it was not allowed to send some of the Venezuelan illegal immigrants residing in America to Guantanamo Bay.

The Hill reported:

A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three migrants to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. District Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales temporarily halted the transfer of three migrants from Venezuela, saying in a filing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was holding them in New Mexico.

The big question was how the Trump administration was going to handle this situation. We now have the answer.

Fox reports:

U.S. District Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales of New Mexico issued a memo Friday announcing the court had vacated a March 3 status conference for three Venezuelan migrants just five days after it blocked the Trump administration's efforts to transfer the migrants to Guantánamo Bay.

Why? Because, "since then, Gonzales said, respondents had filed a notice of removal 'informing the court that all three petitioners were removed to Venezuela, their home country, on Feb. 10, 2025.'"

To Guantanamo they go

Although Trump was blocked from sending these three individuals to Guantanamo, he has sent others there.

Breitbart News reports:

The Trump administration has sent 53 Venezuelan nationals to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba as the effort to deport criminal illegals gains steam. The 53 criminal illegals were not identified by name but are now being housed in the military-operated detention center where some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists have been kept since the attacks on our homeland in 2001...

The administration, according to Breitbart, has confirmed that the individuals sent to Guantanamo "had entered the U.S. illegally and are 'violent gang members and other high-threat illegal aliens.'"

Breitbart notes that this "is the first time the facility in Cuba has been used to house criminal illegals deported from the U.S. mainland."

Some, including the American Civil Liberties Union, are trying to stop this. It remains to be seen whether they will be successful.