The judge argued that because the Trump administration has removed the migrants it sent there, the plaintiffs’ claim that the policy posed an imminent threat of irreparable harm lacked merit.
Two groups of migrants were previously sent to Guantanamo Bay, but all were either returned to the United States or repatriated to Venezuela.
The two legal complaints focus on allegations that the government unfairly barred migrants from in-person access to lawyers and lacked the authority to detain them outside the U.S., where conditions were worse.
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Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the plaintiffs “failed to established they are suffering irreparable harm” that would warrant a pause on the government’s ability to send more migrants to the facility.
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