Madison Sheahan, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shot back Monday on Newsmax at criticism from a Florida Democrat lawmaker that a detention facility for illegal immigrants is an “internment camp” that should be “shut the hell down.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., claimed the conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz,” a state-run ICE detention center on an airport tarmac surrounded by the Everglades that opened July 3, as “really appalling” after touring the facility Saturday with other lawmakers. She described the detention areas as “cages, wall-to-wall” that held 32 people per “cage,” which contained only bunk beds and “three tiny toilets” that are a toilet and sink combined into a single unit.
President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis toured the facility July 1, with Trump saying, “This is an amazing thing that they’ve done here.”
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