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Guantánamo Bay

I am adamantly opposed to the Obama Administration’s plans to transfer terrorist detainees from the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.  Closing Guantánamo and relocating the world’s most dangerous terrorists to a federal prison in Illinois will not improve the security and safety of 300 million Americans.  I strongly disagree with the Administration’s intent to grant these military combatants the rights and privileges of our civilian court system.  Instead, they should be tried before military tribunals.  Military commissions are constitutional and well established in American and Western jurisprudence, and are better suited than our civilian courts to try enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.

Press Releases

  • Biggert, U.S. Reps Urge IL Senate Vote on Gitmo Prison Plan

    Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL-13) today called on Illinois Senate President John Cullerton to hold a vote on legislation designed to give the public a greater say in whether an Illinois prison will be used to house terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay. . .

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  • Reaction of U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert to the Administration's Budget Proposal

    Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL-13) today issued the following statement regarding this morning's release of President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2011: "Congress knows it, the President knows it, and the American people know it -- spending is out of control in Washington. . .

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  • Biggert Urges Illinois Commission to Reject GITMO Prison Plan

    Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Judy Biggert (R-IL-13) this morning called on members of a state panel to reject plans to bring terrorist detainees from the U.S. Naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Illinois. Later today, the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability is scheduled to hold an advisory vote on the proposed closure of the Thomson Correctional Center for the purposes of selling the facility to the federal government for housing military detainees. . .

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