Presidential candidate Marco Rubio responded sternly Tuesday to President Obama’s latest overture to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.

“[W]e’re not going to close Guantanamo. In fact, we shouldn’t be releasing the people that are there now,” Rubio said at a campaign event in Las Vegas. “They are enemy combatants. These are literally enemy combatants, in essence soldiers — not soldiers, terrorists, of foreign terrorist organizations, many of whom, as soon as you release them, they rejoin the fight against us.

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