| 1 | 1 | | 81R9535 BPG-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Estes S.C.R. No. 21 |
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| 5 | 5 | | CONCURRENT RESOLUTION |
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| 6 | 6 | | WHEREAS, President Barack Obama signed an executive order on |
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| 7 | 7 | | January 22, 2009, ordering the closure of United States detention |
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| 8 | 8 | | facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within the year; and |
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| 9 | 9 | | WHEREAS, Under this executive order, suspected terrorists |
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| 10 | 10 | | now confined to the detention center will be returned to their home |
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| 11 | 11 | | country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred |
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| 12 | 12 | | to another United States detention facility; Lackland Air Force |
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| 13 | 13 | | Base in San Antonio is among the military installations being |
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| 14 | 14 | | considered by the House Armed Services Committee as potential sites |
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| 15 | 15 | | for the relocation of enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo, and |
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| 16 | 16 | | news accounts have also mentioned the El Paso Processing Center |
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| 17 | 17 | | operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a possible |
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| 18 | 18 | | transfer location; and |
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| 19 | 19 | | WHEREAS, The Department of Defense has estimated that the |
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| 20 | 20 | | terrorism reengagement rate has reached 11 percent among those |
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| 21 | 21 | | Guantanamo detainees previously released from custody or |
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| 22 | 22 | | transferred to prisons elsewhere in the world and that some 61 |
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| 23 | 23 | | former detainees are suspected or confirmed to have returned to |
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| 24 | 24 | | terrorist activity; clearly, such individuals are too dangerous to |
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| 25 | 25 | | be permitted on Texas soil; and |
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| 26 | 26 | | WHEREAS, Ensuring the safety of all citizens is the highest |
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| 27 | 27 | | responsibility of government, and federal tax dollars should not be |
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| 28 | 28 | | used to bring a potential threat into the Lone Star State; now, |
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| 29 | 29 | | therefore, be it |
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| 30 | 30 | | RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas |
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| 31 | 31 | | hereby urge the Texas congressional delegation to take action to |
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| 32 | 32 | | prohibit the use of federal funds to transfer enemy combatants from |
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| 33 | 33 | | Guantanamo Bay to any facility in Texas or to build or modify |
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| 34 | 34 | | facilities for any such enemy combatants in this state; and, be it |
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| 35 | 35 | | further |
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| 36 | 36 | | RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official |
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| 37 | 37 | | copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to |
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| 38 | 38 | | the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the |
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| 39 | 39 | | senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the |
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| 40 | 40 | | Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this |
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| 41 | 41 | | resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a |
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| 42 | 42 | | memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |
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