President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday evening that his administration will stick to its practice of holding asylum seekers in detention in “tent cities” until their trials, rather than releasing the immigrants until their court dates.
“If they applied for asylum, we’re going to hold them until such time as their trial takes place,” Trump told Fox on Monday. When asked where the influx of asylum-seekers would be held, he said “we’re going to building tent cities.”
“We’re going to put tents up all over the place. We’re not going to build structures and spend all of this, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars — we’re going to have tents,” he said. “They’re going to be very nice.”
.@POTUS on facilities for asylum seekers: "We’re going to build tent cities. We’re going to put tents up all over the place." @IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/fL3ALkNbz4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 30, 2018
Trump has referred to the caravan of migrants who are making their way toward the U.S.-Mexico border and “invasion” and has used the media coverage of the caravan to fear monger about immigration just before the midterms.
The English called them “concentration camps.”
These “very nice” tents…do we have them stored somewhere? Enough for 7000 (or however many your fevered imagination has decided there are by now) people? Are they free? Do you have a “friend” who can supply them to us at an unimaginable profit for himself?
Let’s put you in one of those very nice tents and hold you there for who knows how long and see how you like the experience Mr. Reality TV No Humanity Star.
That’s exactly right.
It would still cost quite a bit to do that with the number of people coming. Tents, man hours and feeding those people. In addition to caring for them. I get they want an express lane to kick people out but unless they start starving people this is not going to be cheap either way.
This is being done to plead to the base that if you like what you see than show up and vote. Get all the folks different than you are out of this place.
Not sure he knows what an asylum seeker is. Probably thinks it is where insane people should go. .