The first military flight carrying 10 “high-threat” migrants to Guantánamo Bay landed on Tuesday evening, according to the Defense Department.

The C-17 plane, which took off from El Paso, Texas, landed at 7:20 p.m., U.S. Transportation Command said in a social media post.

The Pentagon later released a statement Wednesday saying that the “10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities” at the high-security prison facility, which has been used to hold detainees linked to the 9/11 attacks.

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