President Trump was on hand for the opening of so-called Alligator Alcatraz yesterday. That's the new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. The president toured the facility alongside Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.They said they hoped the first detainees would arrive there within the next 24 hours with the president adding he'd like to see more states develop these kinds of facilities. You don't always have land so beautiful and so s ...

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I want to show you what it is supposed to look like on the day a president of the United States sees their signature legislation passed through one house of Congress. It must be it. [Applause] So that was the scene in the Roosevelt room in the White House the day that the Affordable Care Act finally passed the House.It's probably very familiar to everybody watching. Everyone in that room nervously watching the screen, really quiet, waiting for that final vote to come in. Then everyone erupts in cheers.The p ...

As promised, joining me now is Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida. Okay, Congressman, you always give it to me straight. Um, so this bill passed the Senate. I woke up this morning like many people and I looked at my phone to just see if it had passed or not. Lisa Marowski, I've already said this is not John McCain. We learned that goes through the House. What is happening behind the scenes? Uh, I'm sure there are efforts to have conversations with Republicans who are on the line for a range of ...

the disastrous decision by the Supreme Court four days ago that allows the Trump administration to begin implementing a flatly odious and unconstitutional order on birthright citizenship. Well, today the administration announced it will begin deporting people subject to that order as soon as July 27th. It's it's madness, but it is madness with a method, which is to deconstruct the foundational concept of what it is to be an American.A concept created in this country's second founding by the 14th Amendment, ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades tonight, President Trump says this massive migrant detention camp built in just eight days has an unusual deterrent to prevent any escapes. Don't run in a straight line. Run like this.He calls it alligator Alcatraz. Splitmore as a joke, but the more I thought of it, the more I liked it. With gators clearly visible outside, NBC News getting a first look inside.The partnership with the state has been great. Right. Acting ICE director Todd Lions telling us the goal is to keep det ...

Thing the country's newest immigration facility as alligator Alcatraz. And despite the fact that ICE detention is not supposed to be punitive, the Florida facility seems to be an embrace of the kind of cruelty the Trump administration has directed at immigration immigrant communities since his inauguration. As Reuters put it, quote, "The facility sits some 37 miles from Miami and a vast subtropical wetland teameming with alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. fearsome imagery the White House has leveraged to ...

I'm Gabe Gutierrez inside Alligator Alcatra. The Trump administration and the state of Florida had all of this built in just 8 days. It'll soon house up to 3,000 undocumented immigrants here temporarily.The acting ICE director tells me the goal is to have detainees here for no more than 2 weeks. Want to ensure that we remove people back in a safe and humane manner and we'd much rather do it quickly. Not only for the people detained, like I said, but just for cost savings for the American government.The admi ...

President Trump has returned to the White House after touring a new and controversial migrant detention facility in Florida, which conservatives are embracing as a symbol of the administration's immigration crackdown. The president, alongside Florida Governor Ronda Santis and Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome, visited the detention center that's become known as Alligator Alcatraz, and for good reason. The facility is situated on the site of an old airirst strip in the Florida Everglades, and that sp ...

It's known as Alligator Alcatraz, which is very appropriate because I looked outside and that's not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon. But very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet. We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swamp land and the only way out is really deportation.I give the governor a lot of credit for using this piece of land. And in addition to that, it's on top of something that was already developed. It's an ...