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Nikki Haley: Transferring Gitmo detainees to Charleston will hurt tourism

By Jacqueline Klimas

Published April 28, 2016 3:25pm ET

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Nikki Haley: Transferring Gitmo detainees to Charleston will hurt tourism — The administration presented a plan this year to close the detention center in Cuba by moving detainees, who can’t be released, to the United States. (AP Photo/Ben Fox) | Ben Fox

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that tourists will no longer visit Charleston if the Pentagon moves Gitmo detainees to the military brig there.

“Who’s going to come vacation in a state that’s known to house terrorists?” the Republican governor told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency.

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