Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Tuesday that President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and transfer detainees to the United States is illegal.
“Congress has acted over and over again in a bipartisan way to reject the president’s plan to transfer terrorists to the United States,” said McConnell, R-Ky., on the Senate floor. “It would be illegal to transfer foreign terrorists at Guantanamo into the United States.”
McConnell’s said senators will “review the president’s plans,” but since it involves transferring prisoners to the U.S., “he should know the bipartisan will of Congress has already been expressed against that proposal.”
