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Cornyn Statement on President Obama's Plan to Close GITMO

Statement

Date: Feb. 23, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Infrastructure

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) issued the following statement after the President announced his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility:

"With the threat of ISIS and other terror groups to the nation only growing, the President's insistence on fulfilling an ill-conceived campaign promise to bring hardened terrorists to American soil is reckless, naïve, and bewildering.

"Bringing these detainees to the U.S. would not only violate current law, it would defy the will of Congress and the American people who do not want dangerous, radical terrorists in their backyards.

"Between negotiating a bad deal with Iran and the ongoing threat of a terrorist attack here in the U.S., it's disappointing to see the President continue to prioritize his political agenda at the expense of the American people."


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