MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart on Monday's The Daily Show that if President Trump gets the giant warehouse prisons his administration has sought for immigrants, they won't stay immigrant-only for long.
"With a president like this, if you give him seven to ten prisons around the country that hold 10,000 people each, where he can hold people without trial, without access to lawyers indefinitely, you think he's only going to leave immigrants in there?" Maddow asked. "I just don't. I think that what they first do to immigrants, they want to do to the rest of us."
On "Comedy Central," Rachel Maddow very seriously says Trump wants to put his opponents in mega-prisons next to the illegal aliens slated for deportation. pic.twitter.com/CPVuD8C8Jb
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The exchange started with the Department of Homeland Security's plan to turn a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia, into a detention center for up to 10,000 people, which DHS dropped in June after the city fought it. Stewart said many of the people being held were in for what are usually treated as civil matters. "These are not the worst of the worst. These are people who overstayed a student visa or are here on a green card but got a parking ticket."
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