Trump’s plan to vastly expand migrant detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba has proven costly and logistically complicated.

A federal judge in Washington ruled against plaintiffs who challenged the Trump administration’s ability to transfer immigrants to the U.S. military base in Cuba, known as Guantánamo Bay.

A federal judge expressed doubts toward those challenging the federal policy, a potentially favorable sign for President Trump as he seeks to clamp down on immigration.

The 40 men were transported to Louisiana as the detention operation faces a number of logistical and legal hurdles.

Immigration officials have removed all migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay and returned them to the US, just weeks after sending the first batch to the US military base in Cuba. According to US media reports,