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The Democrats are at it again, poor dears, clutching their pearls and crying foul over the Trump administration’s latest move to house illegal immigrants at military bases in New Jersey and Indiana. Because apparently, using secure facilities to manage a border crisis is the height of "inhumane" behavior.
According to Fox News Digital, the Defense Department, under Secretary Pete Hegseth, has decided to repurpose parts of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey and Camp Atterbury in Indiana as "temporary soft-sided holding facilities" for illegal aliens. You know, the kind of common-sense move you make when you’re trying to get a handle on an immigration system that’s been a hot mess for years. But New Jersey Democrats, those champions of open borders, are positively apoplectic, claiming it "jeopardizes military preparedness" and is just so mean.
According to Fox News Digital, the Defense Department, under Secretary Pete Hegseth, has decided to repurpose parts of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey and Camp Atterbury in Indiana as "temporary soft-sided holding facilities" for illegal aliens. You know, the kind of common-sense move you make when you’re trying to get a handle on an immigration system that’s been a hot mess for years. But New Jersey Democrats, those champions of open borders, are positively apoplectic, claiming it "jeopardizes military preparedness" and is just so mean.
Cue the kazoos.
Here’s their melodramatic joint statement, signed by Reps. Herb Conaway, LaMonica McIver, Donald Norcross, Rob Menendez, Frank Pallone, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Josh Gottheimer, Nellie Pou, and Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim:
The Defense Department says it’s still working out when these facilities will open, depending on operational needs and coordination with Homeland Security. Hegseth, in a letter to Rep. Conaway, assured him the move won’t mess with military training or readiness. But don’t expect the Democrats to take his word for it—they’re too busy grandstanding about "inhumane treatment" while ignoring the fact that New Jersey already has privately run immigration detention centers like Delaney Hall and Elizabeth Detention Center. Oh, and speaking of Delaney Hall, let’s not forget when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. LaMonica McIver got themselves arrested there in May for clashing with federal immigration officials. Real profiles in courage, those two.
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a massive 42,000-acre tri-service base, and Camp Atterbury, a 34,000-acre Army and Air National Guard facility, are apparently too sacred to be used for anything but progressive-approved causes. Never mind that they’re perfectly suited for secure, temporary housing while the government processes migrants for asylum hearings or deportation. Nope, to the Democrats, this is “militarizing” immigration policy. Meanwhile, they’re silent on the $150–$170 billion Big Beautiful Bill Trump signed two weeks ago, which includes $45 billion to expand detention facilities as part of the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. You’d think they’d have bigger fish to fry than whining about a couple of military bases.
And let’s not forget the cherry on top: the Trump administration’s new "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp in the Florida Everglades, surrounded by—you guessed it—alligators. If that doesn’t scream “America’s back,” I don’t know what does. Naturally, the same Democrats throwing a tantrum over New Jersey and Indiana haven’t said a peep about that one. Probably too busy drafting their next sanctimonious press release.
So, here we are: Democrats are mad that the government is using secure, existing facilities to enforce immigration laws, but they’re fine with military bases being used for their pet projects. It’s almost like the outrage is selective. Shocker.
Here’s their melodramatic joint statement, signed by Reps. Herb Conaway, LaMonica McIver, Donald Norcross, Rob Menendez, Frank Pallone, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Josh Gottheimer, Nellie Pou, and Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim:
"This is an inappropriate use of our national defense system and militarizes a radical immigration policy that has resulted in the inhumane treatment of undocumented immigrants and unlawful deportation of U.S. citizens, including children, across the country. Using our country’s military to detain and hold undocumented immigrants kindizes military preparedness and paves the way for ICE immigration raids in every New Jersey community. We have the greatest military in the world and using it as a domestic political tool is unacceptable and shameful.""Kindizes military preparedness"? Did they mean "jeopardizes"? Someone get these folks a proofreader. And let’s not miss the irony here: these are the same people who cheered when the Biden administration used these very bases to house thousands of Afghan refugees in 2021 after the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. Back then, it was all humanitarian kumbaya. Now? It’s a war crime. Funny how the goalposts move when Trump’s in charge.
The Defense Department says it’s still working out when these facilities will open, depending on operational needs and coordination with Homeland Security. Hegseth, in a letter to Rep. Conaway, assured him the move won’t mess with military training or readiness. But don’t expect the Democrats to take his word for it—they’re too busy grandstanding about "inhumane treatment" while ignoring the fact that New Jersey already has privately run immigration detention centers like Delaney Hall and Elizabeth Detention Center. Oh, and speaking of Delaney Hall, let’s not forget when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. LaMonica McIver got themselves arrested there in May for clashing with federal immigration officials. Real profiles in courage, those two.
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a massive 42,000-acre tri-service base, and Camp Atterbury, a 34,000-acre Army and Air National Guard facility, are apparently too sacred to be used for anything but progressive-approved causes. Never mind that they’re perfectly suited for secure, temporary housing while the government processes migrants for asylum hearings or deportation. Nope, to the Democrats, this is “militarizing” immigration policy. Meanwhile, they’re silent on the $150–$170 billion Big Beautiful Bill Trump signed two weeks ago, which includes $45 billion to expand detention facilities as part of the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. You’d think they’d have bigger fish to fry than whining about a couple of military bases.
And let’s not forget the cherry on top: the Trump administration’s new "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp in the Florida Everglades, surrounded by—you guessed it—alligators. If that doesn’t scream “America’s back,” I don’t know what does. Naturally, the same Democrats throwing a tantrum over New Jersey and Indiana haven’t said a peep about that one. Probably too busy drafting their next sanctimonious press release.
So, here we are: Democrats are mad that the government is using secure, existing facilities to enforce immigration laws, but they’re fine with military bases being used for their pet projects. It’s almost like the outrage is selective. Shocker.
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