Letter

Coalition Letter Opposing H.R. 5351- A Blanket Ban on Guantanamo Transfers

Document Date: September 14, 2016

This coalition letter, signed by the ACLU and various human rights, civil liberties, and religious organizations, urges the House to reject H.R. 5351, a bill introduced by Representative Jackie Walorski to block all transfers out of Guantanamo for the remainder of this year. H.R. 5351 would block all transfers of Guantanamo detainees to the United States, even for purposes of prosecution in federal criminal court, and it also would ban the resettlement or repatriation of detainees cleared by the United States for transfer to foreign countries. The bill would needlessly tie the administration’s hands in resolving the problem of Guantanamo and trying terrorism suspects in federal criminal courts, or resettling or repatriating cleared detainees overseas in a manner that protects national security and comports with human rights principles and the rule of law.