when I was getting apprehended uh then they were banging on my window to uh leave um or to get out. Um there was multiple officers uh telling me to do different things. Some were telling me to keep reversing. Some were banging on my windshield to get out.Um and I was trying to tell them like I'm leaving. Um like I'm leaving. Like I'll get out of here.Like I don't want any problems. I'm trying to reverse. Uh I can't breathe because of the tear gas in my car. I can't reverse.I can't continue to reverse while ...

President Trump and his immigration officials have repeatedly claimed that they're focused on going after the worst of the worst criminals in their immigration crackdown. But what we've seen instead in recent months, an everex expanding list of targets that even includes the most vulnerable population, children. Their tactics have amounted to tracking down migrant children and sorting them into categories such as flight risk, public safety, and border security, ending funding for their legal representation, ...

Let's talk big picture here for a second. Why is it important to you um that you get in there for for you as an elected official to see for yourself the conditions in there and for you to describe them to the public. Well, number one, it's important because I'm one of the only people that are that's able to go inside that facility, walk outside of it, and deliver the truth, say exactly what I saw and exactly what's going on.You know, I when I went in and we were standing at that door looking at the cages, l ...

Yet more controversy surrounding the Florida immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz. New reporting from the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times reveals the sequence of events that led to a 15-year-old boy with no criminal record being held there for 3 days after a traffic stop. Joining me now is Anna Kabalos, who is on the by line of that reporting. Anna, tell us more about what you know about what happened there. Hi. Uh yes. So we found that there was a 15-year-old whose name is Alexis who w ...

And we are getting two wildly different accounts of the conditions inside Florida's brand new but already notorious immigrant detention center alligator Alcatraz. Democratic lawmakers who toured the facility on Saturday described people essentially packed into cages in vile conditions and yelling for help. But Republicans on that same tour say they saw nothing of the sort, rejecting concerns about the conditions inside.I have not been there yet. And uh I doubt a lot of that's factual. I mean bottom line is ...

Another immigrant suddenly detained by ICE, sparking unanswered questions about due process and leaving a community in uproar. This is Imam Aean Solomon, a former chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He came to the US from Egypt in 2014 seeking asylum.And since then, he's dedicated his life to interfaith work, supporting families fighting for their kids' recovery or praying for those suffering from losses in the hospital. The Biden administration started the process to revoke his asylum status in 202 ...

What we saw in there is very simple. We saw humans being held in cages. Florida lawmakers visited the migrant detention center in Florida, which your administration has dubbed alligator Alcatraz.Uh, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that the conditions there are inhumane. More than 30 people stuffed into a jail cell. She said they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth from the same place where they go to the bathroom.Madam Secretary, what do you say to these lawmakers who argue this ...

This place needs to be shut the hell down. The rhetoric does not match the reality from what you guys have been hearing from, I would say, Democrats, especially uh congressional Democrats. This place is a stunt and they're abusing human beings here.It's actually a very well-run facility. Um the idea that the uh the detainees are in there and they're in uh squalid conditions is just not accurate. They are essentially packed into cages, wallto-wall humans, 32 detainees per cage.The bed was actually probably m ...

Florida Democratic lawmakers are raising alarms over conditions at the state's new immigration detention center that the administration is calling Alligator Alcatraz after seeing the conditions of the Everglades facility for themselves in what they called a quote sanitized tour on Saturday since the administration knew they were coming. People held at the 30,000 bed center the state rapidly built on an isolated airirstrip surrounded by swamp land have told the Associated Press that worms turn up in the food ...

Florida lawmakers visited the migrant detention center in Florida, which your administration has dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. Uh, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that the conditions there are inhumane. More than 30 people stuffed into a jail cell.She said they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth from the same place where they go to the bathroom. Madam Secretary, what do you say to these lawmakers who argue this is not humane treatment of individuals, of humans. Well, our detention ...