{"id":10858,"date":"2025-07-01T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-homeland-security-democrats-allude-to-internment-camps-as-they-slam-alligator-alcatraz-facility\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:16:43","slug":"house-homeland-security-democrats-allude-to-internment-camps-as-they-slam-alligator-alcatraz-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-homeland-security-democrats-allude-to-internment-camps-as-they-slam-alligator-alcatraz-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"House Homeland Security Democrats allude to internment camps as they slam \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House Homeland Security Committee\u2019s Democratic members made allusions to Nazi Germany as they assailed \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump toured Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, never a bad sign when fascists start building camps,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HomelandDems\/status\/1940088888896495945\" target=\"_blank\">the committee posted on X<\/a> on Tuesday alongside a video of Trump advocating for similar facilities in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/24\/florida-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-facility-everglades-00422203\" target=\"_blank\">visited the site<\/a> alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor, Trump\u2019s onetime opponent in the 2024 Republican primary, has pledged his state&#8217;s support as the White House works to enact its sweeping mass deportation agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-alligator-alcatraz-detention-center-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photos of the facility from Trump\u2019s tour<\/a> showed dozens of bunk beds arranged in cages inside a large tent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want a bunch of people\u2026 interned\u2026in a camp of some sorts\u2026I wonder what we should call this?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HomelandDems\/status\/1940076697023652166\" target=\"_blank\">the committee wrote<\/a> in another post.<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement that these &#8220;unhinged comments by deranged leftists are despicable and warrant an immediate apology.&#8221; The facility, she added, &#8220;is a state-of-the-art facility with adequate beds, air-conditioning, on-site medical, and more,&#8221; comparing it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1940051649126703501\" target=\"_blank\">favorably to conditions<\/a> in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Homeland Security Committee\u2019s Democratic members made allusions to Nazi Germany as they assailed \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump toured Tuesday. \u201cHistorically, never a bad sign when fascists start building camps,\u201d the committee posted on X on Tuesday alongside a video of Trump advocating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}