First off these non-citizens are being held in Guantanamo, a U.S. military base, which makes it sovereign U.S. soil, just like an embassy is considered to be part of the U.S. Which means the rules of law for the United States still apply to them. If they have committed a crime then they should be put on trial, holding people in prison without a trial happens in Iran and North Korea. Do we really want to be in that same group? Why is the ACLU involved, because if we start making exceptions in one case we can start making exceptions in others. Just ask the hundreds of thousands of American citizens who were sent to dentition camps that were inside the United States during WWII, because they were of Japanese descent and only because of that.

As to working Christmas, I have for many years, not every industry shuts down on Christmas. For example the hotels and airlines you use don't close on Christmas. So I'll be more than glad to show up for work and I'll turn on the climate control if an employer wants me to work. If it costs to much money than they don't have to open the office and I'll stay home and you can pay me like every other employee on that day, that's the employers choice.

Try to remember there are millions of people who live in this country who are not Christian. I am Jewish so I don't consider Christmas to be a holiday for me, that doesn't mean you can't celebrate it. However one former employer refused to allow me to take Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur off even though I was one of 10 out of 250 employees who requested it. I was told it was double dipping because I got "their" holidays and my holidays off. The difference is I don't get a paid holiday for mine and their holidays are not my holidays..