Immigration Lawyer Details Horrific Conditions at ICE Detention Centers

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Trump Administration is quickly ramping up its efforts to arrest and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, now that extra money is starting to roll in thanks to President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law. It set aside more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement, including $45 billion to build and expand detention centers and $29 billion to help hire new immigration agents. The most notorious symbol of the administration's immigration crackdown is the pop up detention center in the Florida Everglades the administration calls ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ But more facilities are popping up all over the country, as are allegations of horrific conditions. Katie Blankenship is an attorney and co-founder of Sanctuary of the South, which provides legal services and civil rights representation throughout the region. She’s currently representing clients in ICE detention centers, and joins us to talk about what she's hearing from them.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, July 25th. I'm Todd Zwillick, and this is what a day, the show that rips off its shirt to reveal two Python's brother, and we will see you at WrestleMania 7. R.I.P. Hulk Hogan, we loved you as kids, up to and until your very racist sex tape.
0:22.7	It was bad.
0:24.4	Don't look it up.
0:29.6	On today's show, the latest on just how hard the White House worked to find, and then to hide,
0:36.6	the inconvenient truth about Donald Trump and Jeffrey
0:39.2	Epstein's long friendship, more on Donald Trump's effort to lower interest rates by intimidating
0:45.0	the Fed chair and accusing him of construction fraud and new evidence and new alarm about the
0:50.9	extent of starvation in Gaza. But let's start with the Trump administration's massive
0:56.2	and quickly growing campaign of migrant detention and deportation. It won't surprise you to learn that it's
1:03.4	getting massive and fast, or at least it shouldn't surprise you. When you hear some of these
1:09.7	numbers, Trump's tax and spending law,
1:12.1	the so-called big, beautiful bill, the one that gave tax breaks to the rich and will cut off
1:16.9	more than 10 million people from their health coverage, it put immigration and customs
1:21.3	enforcement ice on steroids. The law spends roughly $170 billion on immigration enforcement, $45 billion of that
1:31.2	for expanded detention, $29 billion to help ICE hire and train more agents. Immigration judges
1:39.3	and courts, just $3 billion. So that should make the priorities here clear. Last week, we told you about the new
1:47.7	pop-up detention center in the Florida Everglades. The administration calls Alligator Alcatraz.
1:53.8	It set the tone for the intimidation and dehumanization to come and the perverse fun the Trump
1:59.9	administration is having while doing it.
2:02.5	But Alligator Alcatraz is far from alone.
2:05.6	ICE detention facilities are popping up all over the country as the Trump administration
2:09.9	rushes to execute its promised roundups.
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