Name: MAGA supporter: Self-deportations are not scary, they get $1K and a free plane ticket
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When the Trump administration says that they're sending the worst of the worst there, why are they sending people with no criminal records?

Well, listen, I, first of all, when I was in the State Senate, we had a ICE detention facility in my district, I was I was involved with several aspects of you know, the different things that have to be done and the grants that were required and the and the upgrades they had.

Every federal detention facility, every one of them goes through the same exact stringent requirements.

These people are getting three hots in a cot.

They're not they're not being abused or not being tortured.

They're getting better conditions than I had when my team lived in Afghanistan.

And so the reality is the idea that they are somehow being abused as people having their humanity stripped from them is a misnomer.

I do not have to walk in the door to know what the requirements are.

No abomination, according to the real Congress.

Look, let me read the first let me say one thing.

First, yeah, the Trump administration says what you're saying.

But the lawmakers who visited say other things.

Here is one Venezuelan detainee who spoke to the Associated Press and said that the conditions in which we are living are inhuman.

I said the detainee from phone from the facility.

My main concern is the psychological pressure that they are putting on people to sign their self deportation.

The man who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals characterized the cells as zoo cages with eight beds each teaming with mosquitoes, crickets and frogs.

He says they're locked up 24 hours a day with no windows, no way to know the time.

There have also been reports that the lights are on 24 hours a day, people can't sleep.

And the implication here is that the they want to create conditions that are so unpleasant that rather than be deported through a process, people just sign away their rights and get sent on a plane and go.

I'm actually horrified about what you just described.

But I want to attach the biggest because I think due process is a human right.

Everyone should be treated with dignity and federal detention.

But it's the biggest if true ever, because we need to actually verify this.

I'm actually seeking to see if I can go this week in I live in Florida, and I'd like to report there myself.

The Democratic lawmakers you have on one hand, the Trump administration officials saying it's fine, it's up to par.

On the other hand, these Democrats, I don't really believe anything they say when it comes to Trump, I've had Democrats tell me that net neutrality would end the internet.

I've had members of Congress, Ayanna Pressley, many others say that Trump was bringing back segregation, verbatim say that.

So the credibility in the bank, I want some independent verification of what's going on in this facility should look the media and I absolutely let the media and why aren't they letting the media and they have let some reporters in for that.

They have let some reporters that you can see pictures that show what Debbie Wasserman shows the Congresswoman and Maxwell Frost, the congressman from Florida are saying which is that there's 32 beds in a small area that there's three toilets.

Those are things that are easily verifiable.

If this is supposed to be such a pleasant place, why did they bother to call it alligator Alcatraz?

Why did they bother to put it where it is?

Immigration is performative cruelty as part of a strategy, whether it's sending people to a gulag in El Salvador, whether it's deporting people to places like Sudan, that have no ties to Sudan, where there is a civil war going on, whether it's using military uniform, aircraft, whether it's this alligator Alcatraz, it's about scaring people.

But you know, I, the Donald Trump's numbers, approval numbers on immigration have gone down dramatically.

And I think part of it is because the American people voted for criminals and gang members to be deported and to be prosecuted and to be gotten rid of.

What they are seeing is that it's legal permanent residence.

What they are seeing is that it's mothers and fathers and children and teenagers and people who play with their kids at a school and people who work at farms that then we eat the food.

But Trump did promise to do exactly that.

I didn't support it, but he wasn't, he never said, or he may have said it a few times, but his actual platform was always mass deportation, not just the criminals.

So when people say, I didn't vote for this, you actually kind of did.

Well, I guess, I mean, I think you're right that he campaigned on mass deportations, but if you also listen to those rallies, he repeated ad nauseum that these were the worst of the worst, the criminals that they had cleared out their insane and insane asylums, which he seems to think the same thing as asylum.

Let me just read one more thing and Phil, I promise I'll let you in and then I'll let you, you haven't spoken at all.

So an immigration attorney, Kate Blankenship said she was turned away after traveling to the remote facility, waiting for hours to speak with clients, including a 15 year old Mexican boy with no criminal charges.

Her client, Royo's client, another, another attorney is a 36 year old Mexican man who came to the U.S. as a child, has been at the detention center since July 5th after being picked up for driving with a suspended license.

Another attorney, Ike has been seeking the release of a client in his fifties with no criminal record and a stay of removal, meaning the government cannot legally deport him while he appeals.

Some of them were out here as children and are being sort of pushed into, uh, saying sign away my rights, send me, send me back somewhere.

Uh, one is the self deportation is, is actually, I mean, they're paying each one a thousand dollars and, and sending them with a free plane ticket.

So self deportation is really not a scary thing, but the reality is.

I think the point is like people have lives here.

Maybe some of them are trying to go there.

The left side of their status, et cetera, portraying somehow that the, the self deportation was somehow weighing in hard and pressing down on people.

It's like saying, Hey, if you'll do it this way, we'll even pay you to go.

But the reality is we also voted for the numbers at the border.

I mean, I, I understand what you're saying, but just remember, we're talking about human beings here.

Some of them have families, they have jobs.

I get that too, but I'm just saying the way you're describing it, it's like, just, just get on a plane and here's a thousand dollars.

I mean, we're not talking about, if you put it in context, Barack Obama utilized detention centers, um, not like this, George, George HW Bush used detention centers.

And to me, it seems like this is the best way to facilitate removing people who have violated our immigration laws or in our country illegally to send them back home.

Now, I would agree with Anna that we shouldn't send people to places where they have no or no family origin at all.

That just makes zero sense to me, but we should absolutely send people back to their, their country of origin and say, there's a process to enter into the United States.

We cannot be a country that just allows people to come whenever they want.

A lot of the people that are being held are not here illegally because if you're a legal permanent resident who's being detained because of some traffic issue or because they got, you got caught with weed 20 years ago, you have been here legally as a legal permanent resident.

If you have been here under temporary protective status, that is status.

If you came in to the country with a parole, you were paroled legally into this country.