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WASHINGTON,
DC
–
U.S.
Senators
Tim
Scott
(R-S.C.), Pat
Roberts
(R-Kan.),
and
Cory
Gardner
(R-Colo.)
today
responded
to
reports
that
the
administration
will
present
Congress
tomorrow
with
a
plan
to
close
the
Guantanamo
Bay
detention
facility
and
relocate
the
remaining
terrorists
held
there
to
a
location
on
the
mainland
United
States.
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“Congress
passed
a
law
in
November
explicitly
barring
the
transfer
of
Guantanamo
prisoners
to
domestic
soil,”
the
senators
said.
“Military
leaders
have
repeatedly
said
they
will
not
break
the
law
to
close
the
facility
and
relocate
its
prisoners
on
the
mainland,
which
would
be
yet
another
of
the
administration’s
misguided
national
security
decisions.
With
ever-growing
threats
abroad
and
our
increased
efforts
to
combat
ISIS,
we
need
a
place
to
house
these
terrorists,
and
that
place
is
not
in
our
communities,
nor
back
on
the
battlefield.”
“This
plan
is
expected
to
present
the
options
for
the
relocation
of
Guantanamo,
but
regardless
of
whether
it
is
Kansas,
South
Carolina,
or
Colorado,
none
of
these
options
are
acceptable.
Our
states
and
our
communities
remain
opposed
to
moving
the
world’s
deadliest
terrorists
to
U.S.
soil.
The
terrorists
at
Guantanamo
Bay
are
where
they
should
remain
–
at
Guantanamo
Bay.”
Sens.
Scott, Roberts,
and
Gardner
have
been
outspoken
opponents
of
President
Obama’s
intentions
to
close
Guantanamo
Bay.
They
have
stated
concerns
with
the
30
percent
recidivism
rate
among
released
detainees,
the
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
it
will
cost
to
construct
a
new
facility,
and
the
fact
that
opening
domestic
facility
would
place
a
bullseye
for
acts
of
terror
on
an
American
community.
Sites
in
South
Carolina,
Kansas,
and
Colorado
have
been
surveyed
as
potential
replacements
for
Guantanamo.
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