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(NewsNation) — With the caller opening of the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention halfway successful Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is looking astatine enlargement for different states to person akin facilities.
Noem says she wants to treble the capableness of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers crossed the U.S. arsenic the Trump administration promises the largest wide deportation effort successful history. Her absorption is chiefly connected 5 Republican-led states.
The improvement comes conscionable a time aft Democratic lawmakers got a limited tour of "Alligator Alcatraz" and denounced the installation for its overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. One of them was Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
“The cruelty is the point," Wasserman-Schultz said. "This is simply a stunt. I mean, dropping flimsy infrastructure successful the mediate of the Everglades, successful a swamp wherever they bragged astir it being surrounded by alligators and pythons, I mean, the full constituent is to, you know, look tough, similar they're trying to spell aft atrocious hombres.”
Florida Republican Blaise Igoglia, who was besides connected the tour, rebuked Wasserman-Schultz's statements.
"I hatred to accidental it, but they are level retired lying," helium said. "It's show creation connected behalf of the Democrats. We walked done the facility, and it's well-kept, well-lit, it's clean."
Noem added that detention centers astatine the national level, similar "Alligator Alcatraz," are held to a higher modular than astir local, state, and national prisons, pointing retired the magnitude of information footage made public.
"We took cameras successful there," Noem said. "We volition instrumentality cameras successful determination and amusement radical what these facilities look like. Because if you comparison them to what happened nether the Biden medication and nether the Obama administration, these centers are astatine the highest levels."
The Florida Immigration Coalition says they’ve been successful interaction with household members of radical detained astatine Alligator Alcatraz, who assertion the installation is overcrowded and there’s a deficiency of aesculapian attraction for detainees.
