64 percent oppose moving Gitmo prisoners to U.S.

Almost two-thirds of Americans oppose moving suspected terrorist detainees to a U.S. prisons, a new poll found Wednesday.

64 percent of Americans said they oppose closing the terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and moving its detainees to U.S. prisons, according to the latest Gallup Poll.

30 percent of Americans favor such a plan while five percent had no opinion.

The poll comes as President Barack Obama directed some detainees from the Cuban base to be moved to a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois. The move was supported by Democrats in the Illinois congressional delegation, but opposed by Republicans.

Obama directed the prison be closed in an executive order he signed on his inauguration day, though he's acknowledged the one-year timeline he established for shuttering the prison will likely pass.

The poll marks little change in public opinion on closing Guantanamo. Similar percentages of Americans supported and opposed closing the prison in a late May Gallup poll.

Democrats support the move the most at 50 percent, while 28 percent of independents support bringing Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. Eight percent of Republicans support the move.

The poll, conducted Nov. 20-22, has a four percent margin of error.

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