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Chairman McCaul Statement on President's Plan to Close GTMO

Statement

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

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul today released the following statement in reaction to the President's submission of a plan to Congress on closing down Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) and transferring hardened terrorists to U.S. soil.

"The law is clear, and the American people have spoken. They do not want the President to close Guantanamo Bay. They do not want battle-hardened jihadists transferred into our country. And they do not want our communities to become terrorist targets. We are at war, yet incredibly the President is more focused on relocating and releasing enemy combatants than on detaining new ones. He has already let nearly 150 go free--many of which have returned to the fight--and now he wants to give dozens more a one-way ticket to America. I believe the President's plan would increase the terror threat to the United States, and I implore him to focus on winning the war against Islamist terror rather than trying to find new homes for its jihadists."


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