Taxpayers to pay for U.S. Trial and Detention of Terrorists 

Today the House voted to approve the Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Report which allows Guantanamo detainees and other captured terrorists to be transferred onto U.S. soil for trial and detention – all at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.  Previously the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to oppose this provision.  House Republicans offered a motion to prevent the transfer of these terrorists to the U.S., but the Democrat majority defeated it.

Terrorists who kill innocent people and do not abide by international law should not be housed on U.S. soil and granted the same rights as American citizens. Our soldiers should be capturing and killing America’s sworn enemies on the battlefield, not reading Miranda Rights and collecting evidence for the terrorists to use in our courts.

House Democrats support the idea of bringing terrorists onto U.S. soil as a way to honor the Constitution.  I think bringing terrorists to the U.S. and affording them constitutional protections does just the opposite – it weakens our judicial system and undermines our Constitution.

Please know that I will continue to fight on this and other issues. Thank you for entrusting me to represent you in the U.S. Congress.