McConnell statement on Gitmo North

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued this statement regarding the transfer of Guantanamo Bay terrorists to Thomson, Illinois.

The American people and a bipartisan majority of the Congress have already rejected bringing terrorists to U.S. soil for long-term detention, and current law prohibits it. The administration has failed to explain how transferring terrorists to Gitmo North will make Americans safer than keeping these terrorists off of our shores at the secure facility in Cuba.

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