The House Homeland Security Committee’s Democratic members made allusions to Nazi Germany as they assailed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump toured Tuesday.
“Historically, never a bad sign when fascists start building camps,” the committee posted on X on Tuesday alongside a video of Trump advocating for similar facilities in other states.
Trump visited the site alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor, Trump’s onetime opponent in the 2024 Republican primary, has pledged his state’s support as the White House works to enact its sweeping mass deportation agenda.
Photos of the facility from Trump’s tour showed dozens of bunk beds arranged in cages inside a large tent.
“They want a bunch of people… interned…in a camp of some sorts…I wonder what we should call this?” the committee wrote in another post.
Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement that these “unhinged comments by deranged leftists are despicable and warrant an immediate apology.” The facility, she added, “is a state-of-the-art facility with adequate beds, air-conditioning, on-site medical, and more,” comparing it favorably to conditions in the Biden administration.
