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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., made the following statement after a recent press report indicated President Obama is considering unilateral executive action to transfer prisoners housed at Guantanamo Bay to the United States mainland:

“Closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a fanciful idea but importing vicious terrorists onto the United States mainland and giving them legal protections reserved for American citizens has been consistently rejected by bipartisan majorities in Congress who have worked together legally to prohibit the President from doing so.

“The President’s stubborn naïveté distracts from ongoing threats to American national security and highlights the failures of his foreign policy agenda. As House Republicans continue our tireless pursuit of accountability, the President should immediately abandon any ill-conceived plans to bring dangerous terrorists to the American homeland.”