Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) led a group of Democratic senators in writing a letter Friday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against the mass detention of migrants at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, saying it poses a threat to civil rights and military readiness.

The lawmakers highlighted past reports of mistreatment of detainees in facilities operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), expressing concerns over the treatment of migrants imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay.

Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) also signed the letter.

“We oppose placing U.S. military and DoD civilian personnel in the legally and morally tenuous position of conducting mass migrant detention operations. Our men and women in uniform are warfighters, not jailers of migrants," the group wrote.

“The........

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