Senator: Keep Guantanamo Bay open

Published June 11, 2016 3:35pm ET



A key senator pushed for legislation that blocks President Obama from moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the U.S. and wants to keep the detention facility open.

“These detainees aren’t in Gitmo for parking tickets; they’re there because they want to kill Americans and hate everything that we stand for,” said Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., in the weekly GOP address.

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