No Thanks Obama, You Can Keep Your Guantanimo Detainees

Canada takes a lot of flack for being "soft" on immigration. The US has even used that as a reason for the recent border reinforcements along the US/Canada border. There have been comments made suggesting that Canada lets in people the US would not.

So its with great pride that I read the story of how Canada has denied a request by the Obama administration to take in 17 Chinese Muslims that have been detained at Guantanamo Bay.

The US is in a bit of an odd place. The US courts have ruled that these 17 detainees are being held illegally, and they should be released. But they can't be released into the US...in fact the article I linked to above suggests that anyone detained at Guantanamo will never be allowed on US soil again.

But the US can't release these men to China because their safety can't be guaranteed. Will they be tortured because of their faith, or because they were already suspected of being linked to terrorists, or for some other reason? China has claimed the men won't be tortured but the US obviously doesn't buy it. A little odd that they're not so hypersensitive to torture policies of other countries considering what their own is, but I digress...

This all leads to the US coming to Canada to see if we'll take them in. Are the people of the Obama administration that incredibly brash and idiotic that they would, after all the tough talk about securing the border and concerns of who Canada lets in, approach Canada to take in their own detainees?

Guantanamo is America's mess, not Canada's. I feel for the situation these men are in, but its America's responsibilty to do whatever is best here. Trying to pass it off to Canada is a horrible slap in the face.