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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    7 hours ago

    Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz

    Hm. Didn’t expect that sound bite to come from that individual, but alrighty.