The U.S. military has transferred an Algerian detainee out of Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, according to the Pentagon. This comes as the Biden administration works to reduce the number of detainees and hopes to close the detention facility, officials say.
Soon after taking office,with hopes of transferring detainees to other nations and shrink the population as small as possible and then convince Congress to allow the transfer of the last few to detention in the U.S. Since that effort began nearly two years ago, 10 detainees have been transferred to other nations.
Biden would not take executive action to circumvent the 2015 law banning transfers to the U.S., two administration officials said, and the White House doesn’t plan to push Congress to overturn it after assessing there’s little political will for such a move.
One possible option for closing Guantanamo despite the ban on transferring detainees to the U.S., said the one current and one former official, could be to obtain plea deals from those detainees deemed ineligible for transfer during the military commission process and having them serve their prison sentences in their home countries or a third-party country that was also affected by their alleged crime.
The Obama administration, for instance, discussed with the Malaysian government transferring a Guantanamo detainee of Malaysian descent to a prison there as part of a plea deal. The administration also explored sending another Guantanamo detainee to a prison in Israel because the detainee’s crime impacted Israeli citizens.
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