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That the Senate— rejects the Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility , presented by the President on February 23, 2016, to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release of detainees at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States homeland; determines that any attempt by the President to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release of detainees at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, to the United States homeland is in direct violation of the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 ( Public Law 112–10 ), the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 ( Public Law 112–55 ), the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 ( Public Law 112–74 ), the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–6 ), the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 ( Public Law 113–76 ), the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 ( Public Law 113–164 ), the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 ( Public Law 113–235 ), the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 ( Public Law 114–4 ), and the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016 ( Public Law 114–53 ); finds that the detention facility at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, is the optimal location to house dangerous foreign enemy combatants and should not be closed; asserts that any potential transfer or release of detainees at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, to the United States homeland represents a threat to United States national security due to the risk of providing law of war detainees with rights and protections under the United States Constitution, including the potential for release into the United States, and, particularly, a threat to the safety and security of local communities in the States of Kansas, Colorado, and South Carolina; and demands that the President immediately abandon any ill-conceived and illegal plans to transfer detainees at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, to the United States homeland without explicit authorization from Congress.

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