“We are absolutely drawing a line that we are not going to allow any terrorists to come into South Carolina”, Haley, a Lexington Republican, told reporters Thursday.
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The op-ed added, “Of serious concern is that there is no way to control who the terrorists would attract to our communities”.
Last week, Haley said Defense Department officials were “wasting their time” in evaluating the U.S. Navy brig near Charleston as a potential site to house detainees.
Closing the prison was one of the campaign promises made by President Barack Obama in 2008, and Carter said earlier this month that “as long as this detention facility remains open, it will remain a rallying cry for jihadi propaganda”. But Scott said he would fight bringing detainees to anywhere in the nation – even if it means withholding federal money. Fort Leavenworth trains the best and brightest through the Army University, at the Command and General Staff College.
“Everyone in the vicinity would live with a target on their back if some of the most unsafe terrorists in the world were housed among them”, the senators wrote. “Millions of taxpayer dollars would need to be spent to retrofit the barracks-and acquire perhaps 2,000 acres of land around them by eminent domain for a security perimeter-to house these prisoners”. He’s serving a 21-year prison sentence. The choice of lawmakers isn’t coincidental – Roberts’ home state is home to Fort Leavenworth, which houses the American military’s only domestic maximum-security prison, while Charleston is home to an impressive Naval Brig. Charleston is a top national tourist destination with a metropolitan-area population approaching 700,000.
Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a letter urging the U.S. Department of Defense not to move prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth.
While transferring some of the 116 or so detainees to the U.S. mainland would require congressional approval, Haley has said she does not trust President Obama not to try to do it unilaterally.
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We will not let the president ignore the realities of terrorism. “The Secretary indicated additional sites will be reviewed”, Roberts said. Scott is a Republican from South Carolina.
