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DeMint pushes Obama on Gitmo |
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint signed onto a bill Thursday blocking the use of federal funds to transfer alleged terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison to the North Charleston naval brig or to any other facility in the United States.In Columbia, the S.C. House passed a measure asking President Bush and Congress not to move Guantanamo detainees to the state.“Guantanamo Bay is home to the most hardened and battle-tested terrorists in the world,” DeMint, a Greenville Republican, said in co-sponsoring a measure by GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.“It is dangerous to bring these terrorists onto U.S. soil and make targets out of our own communities,” DeMint said. “Guantanamo Bay may cause the Obama administration heartburn, but shutting it down puts American lives in danger.”Rep. Henry Brown, a Hanahan Republican, last month introduced similar legislation in the House, prohibiting federal funding of relocating Guantanamo prisoners to South Carolina.
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