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CNN
3 days ago
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- CNN
‘Very upsetting': Florida lawmaker details what she saw during ‘Alligator Alcatraz' tour
Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited 'Alligator Alcatraz," a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN's Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility, calling it 'very upsetting.'
CNN
3 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Florida lawmaker who toured ‘Alligator Alcatraz' says migrants get water from toilets
Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited 'Alligator Alcatraz," a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN's Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility, calling it 'very upsetting.'
CNN
3 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Florida lawmaker who toured ‘Alligator Alcatraz' says migrants get water from toilets
Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited 'Alligator Alcatraz," a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN's Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility, calling it 'very upsetting.'
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Florida Rep. Angie Nixon calls immigrant detention centers 'concentration camps' on CNN
State Rep. Angie Nixon said President Donald Trump is using "modern-day concentration camps" to carry out mass deportations. Nixon, D-Jacksonville, leveled that charge when she appeared on CNN during its coverage of Trump's visit to a South Florida detention center in the Everglades that state officials call "Alligator Alcatraz." The state also plans to set up a similar center in Northeast Florida at Camp Blanding in Clay County. The facilities will have capacity to hold several thousand people while they await deportation by the federal government. Nixon said Trump is "returning our country to the worst chapters in our history." "This isn't about safety," she said during an interview July 2 on CNN. "This is about Donald Trump building modern-day concentration camps in an effort to disappear people from their communities. Donald Trump's blueprint for America has now become broken families and barbed wire." The use of "concentration camps" to describe such facilities has been controversial. When Trump was running for election, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan said last October in response to a question during a radio interview about Trump's pledge to conduct mass deportations that it would amount to creating a "concentration camp type situation" for holding undocumented immigrants. Five Republican members of the Duval County Legislative Delegation issued a joint statement at the time calling on Deegan to retract her comment and apologize for remarks that are "particularly harmful to Jacksonville's Jewish community and Holocaust survivors who understand the horrors of antisemitism firsthand." Deegan subsequently said she regretted using the term "concentration camp" and did not intend to diminish the horror of the Holocaust. She said she did not regret "calling out the inhumanity of treating immigrants, or any person, as less than human." Nixon said she calls the facilities" modern-day concentration camps" because they are inhumane and Trump made jokes about the prospect of alligators hunting anyone who tries to leave the Everglades center. "These are people's lives," she said after her appearance on CNN. During the CNN interview, Nixon was asked about Gov. Ron DeSantis saying "Alligator Alcatraz" will help carry out deportations by causing people to "self deport" back to their home countries rather than risk going to the facility. "So this is a force multiplier for the president's efforts," DeSantis said when he took Trump on a tour of the facility. Nixon said the facility will cost several hundred million dollars to operate. "Instead of ensuring that we don't have cuts to Medicaid, instead of ensuring that we're addressing issues like the rising cost of property insurance, instead of ensuring that we have quality schools for our children to go to, they want to blow racist dog whistles and push xenophobia instead of handling the things that Floridians and Americans care about," she said on CNN. Camp Blanding: Is work on center to detain 2,000 immigrants starting 'right after' July 4? Political alliance: Once rivals, Trump and DeSantis deepen bond with shared targeting of undocumented migrants During Trump's tour of the facility in the Everglades, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised the partnership between the Trump and DeSantis administrations. "Florida was unique in what they presented to us, and I would ask every other governor to do the exact same thing," she said. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Lawmaker compares 'Alligator Alcatraz' to concentration camps
Fox News
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Florida state lawmaker says Trump is building ‘modern-day concentration camps'
A Florida state representative said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is building "modern-day concentration camps," calling out his newly opened illegal immigrant holding facility in the state. "So, this isn't about safety," lawmaker Angie Nixon said during an interview with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar. Earlier in the day, Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited "Alligator Alcatraz," a migrant detention facility just opened in the Everglades. The detention center is located on the site of a former airport and is said to be able to accommodate 5,000 illegal immigrants, with the president working to act on campaign promises to remove illegal immigrants from the country. But Nixon, who represents Florida's District 13, says that the holding facility is akin to camps that evoke imagery of the Holocaust. "This is actually about Donald Trump building modern-day concentration camps in an effort to disappear people from our communities," Nixon said. "Donald Trump's blueprint for America has now become barbed wire and broken families. You don't make America great again by doing these types of things. All he's simply doing is returning our country to the worst chapters of our history." Keilar also asked Nixon about Trump's remarks during his visit to Alligator Alcatraz, where he said, "Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together." Nixon responded by saying that Trump would be breaking the law. "So, first of all, what Donald Trump is talking about doing is definitely unconstitutional," Nixon said. "And he should know, him not having been put in jail for some of the atrocities that he's committed. But these folks are U.S. citizens, and they should be handled as such. They should be — they should receive due process."
