Spanish authorities feared the Hornacheros would resist deportation by force.

Evidence

The government may well have feared that the weapons held by the Hornacheros would be used by them in some form of armed resistance to deportation, a last stand in the south perhaps, similar to the mountain-top campaign in the east, in the Kingdom of Valencia, which was mounted by Vicente Turixi. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1714