President Trump, throughout the 2024 campaign, made dealing with illegal immigration a major issue, and since he won, decidedly so, it seems that issue resonated with the American voters. Now, the Trump administration is wasting no time getting this going. Not only is the border closed and detentions and repatriations up, but new facilities are being put up to house illegal aliens awaiting their flight home.
One of these is, of course, the famous "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. On Monday, a contract was announced to build another, in Texas, with the capacity to house 5,000 illegal aliens waiting for that trip back home.
The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.
A Defense Department contract announcement on Monday said Acquisition Logistics, a Virginia-based firm, had been awarded $232 million in Army funds to build the facility, which would be used for single immigrant adults.
Procurement documents called it a “soft sided facility,” a phrase often used for tent camps.
Before anyone gets all in a tizzy over making illegal aliens stay in a tent camp in the West Texas summers, I would point out that our service members have been sleeping in tents in the desert for a long time now. I did it myself, in 1991, for nearly six months. So, the illegal aliens can deal with it as well. Yes, a West Texas summer can be unpleasant, but complainers can be reminded that, if they hadn't entered the United States illegally, they wouldn't be in that tent. Let them take that information back to their home country, as an example - and a warning - to anyone else thinking about sneaking into the Estados Unidos.
The announcement came just weeks after Florida authorities rushed to construct a new immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” which was built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Florida Everglades.
The announcement said the new facility would be built in El Paso, which is home to Ft. Bliss, an Army base that stretches across parts of Texas and New Mexico.
If it goes up as fast as the Florida facility did, it should be able to start receiving customers very shortly. Shortly after that, can we expect to see New York's own Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standing outside an empty parking lot nearby, shedding crocodile tears?
Here's my question: Given that the Florida camp, set as it is out in the Florida marshes, is called the "Alligator Alcatraz," what should this new Texas facility be called?
The "Feral Hog Alcatraz?" The "Rattlesnake Alcatraz?" "Scorpion Center?" Or, for the benefit of the people to be housed there, just "Last Stop Before Your Plane Ride Home?"
This is what we voted for. This is what we're getting. What a difference a president makes.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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