Some Senate Democrats sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday opposing the use of Guantanamo Bay to detain illegal migrants, calling it a threat to civil rights and military readiness.

The letter, written by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said U.S. military personnel are “warfighters, not jailers.”

“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,” read the letter, which The Hill reported was also signed by Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

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