Florida state rep: Trump building ‘modern-day concentration camps’
FLORIDA, JUL 2 – The Everglades facility, called "Alligator Alcatraz," can hold up to 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation, drawing criticism for its remote location and inhumane conditions, Rep. Nixon said.
- On July 2, Florida State Representative Angie Nixon accused President Donald Trump of establishing "modern-day concentration camps" in Florida, criticizing the recently inaugurated immigrant detention facility located in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.
- Nixon criticized the facilities as efforts to disappear people from communities and called the plans unconstitutional, while Trump and Governor DeSantis say the centers are necessary for immigration enforcement.
- The Alligator Alcatraz center can hold up to 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation, and a similar ICE detention facility planned at Camp Blanding near Starke aims to house 2,000 detainees with construction expected soon.
- Trump stated the Everglades facility will hold 'some of the most menacing migrants,' and DeSantis urged other conservative states to adopt similar detention efforts to increase deportations.
- Nixon condemned the projects as inhumane and a misuse of taxpayer money, warning they solidify a blueprint of 'barbed wire and broken families' and represent a threat to American values.
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Florida state rep: Trump building 'modern-day concentration camps'
(The Hill) – Florida state Rep. Angela Nixon (D) condemned President Trump’s Tuesday visit to the opening of "Alligator Alcatraz" — a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades. “This isn‘t about safety. This is actually about Donald Trump building modern-day concentration camps in an effort to disappear people from our communities,” Nixon said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN’s “Out Front." “Donald Trump‘s blueprint for America…
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