A Democratic congresswoman has given a scathing review of the Trump administration’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, describing it as an “internment camp” that needs to be “shut the hell down.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida’s 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility “don’t do it justice” and that detainees were being “packed into cages.”

On Saturday Florida lawmakers from both parties took a state-arranged tour of the new 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Everglades.

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    9 hours ago

    On one hand, yes. On the other hand, every time I hear potential terrible plans on social media, it seems like they take it as a guide.

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      “Now that we’re here, what should we do?” “Gee, I don’t know Tom. Let’s see what the liberals on Reddit are crying about and do that.”