Immigrant rights advocates on Wednesday launched a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for detaining migrants at the U.S. naval station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — the site of a “ notorious ” prison where several foreign men and boys were indefinitely held and tortured as part of the so-called War on Terror.

The class action suit was filed in the District of Columbia by the ACLU’s national and D.C. arms, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the International Refugee Assistance Project against the secretaries of defense, homeland security, and state, as well as their departments, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and ICE’s acting director.

The coalition brought the case on behalf of two Nicaraguan men previously detained a facilities in Virginia and Louisiana — Yami

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