Watch Gov. Haley testify on Gitmo before Congress live starting at 10 a.m.

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will testify Thursday before the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee on the possibility of moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Navy brig outside Charleston.

Haley has opposed moving the 80 detainees, including accused terrorists, to the facility in Goose Creek, less than 20 miles northwest from one of the state’s top tourist destinations.

“We’re not going to allow that kind of character to come in,” the governor said last year.

President Barack Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainment camp during his campaign. His administration formalized plans to close Gitmo earlier this year, but the White House did not announce a new prison site. More than a dozen are under consideration.

Haley will speak about “state and local perspectives regarding the impact of transferring Guantanamo detainees to the homeland,” according to the House committee.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-Laurens, is a member of the Homeland Security Committee and another critic of plans to move the detainees to the United States.

“No state should become a terrorist dumping ground, especially not South Carolina,” he wrote in an op-ed column.

This story was originally published April 25, 2016 at 2:54 PM with the headline "Watch Gov. Haley testify on Gitmo before Congress live starting at 10 a.m.."