It’s always quite entertaining to watch members of the Trump Administration shut down far-left journalists who go on the ill-informed attack against Trump policies, and Kristi Noem’s recent smackdown of NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker was no exception, as she totally rebutted the claims Welker was pushing about Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center.
As background, the detention center was constructed in a matter of days inside Florida’s Everglades, where the many alligators that live in the area will theoretically scare the illegal aliens interned there out of trying to escape. The facility is meant to be the final stop of illegal aliens on their way out of the country, as deportation hearings can take place inside the facility, which can hold up to 4000 people.
In outrage that is as poorly informed as it is predictable, leftists have freaked out about the facility and claimed falsely that the detainees housed in it have been subjected to inhumane treatment while living in immense heat and unsanitary conditions. For example, Democratic lawmaker Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed, falsely, that the detainees are forced to drink water out of the same sink used for the bathroom, and are shoved into “wall-to-wall cages.”
Welker, predictably, pushed those same allegations when DHS Secretary Kristi Noem came on her show. Firing back in no uncertain terms, Noem snapped, “Our detention centers at the federal level are held to a higher standard than most local or state centers and even federal prisons. The standards are extremely high, now this is a state-run facility at Alligator Alcatraz —”
Rudely, Welker cut her off at that point and started snapping about the holding capacity of the cells without discussing the size of the cells, which are plenty spacious for those who are detained within them. Pressing Noem on that matter, Welker asked, “More than 30 people stuffed into a jail cell?”
Firing back yet again, Noem then noted that the Biden Administration had actually done what Trump is now falsely accused of doing, saying, “I wish they would have said that back during the Biden administration and back when the Democrats were in the White House when they were piling people on top of each other on cement floors and they didn’t have two feet to move. They never did that, and that’s why this politics has to end.”
Noem further added that the cells in which the illegals are detained are a part of a full facility, not mere jail cells, saying, “I wouldn’t call them jail cells, I would call them a facility where they are held and that are secure facilities, but are held to the highest levels of what the federal government requires for detention facilities –”
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Welker then pressed the DHS Secretary on the issue yet again, snapping, “Democrats have called them cages.” Secretary Noem once again pushed back on that characterization of what is going on, but added that she would try to have cameras installed so that the truth about the facility’s habitable conditions could be widely seen.
Watch their fight here:
Featured image: Screen shot from embedded video