Joe Scarborough Rages After NJ Governor Blocked from Entering ICE Internment' Camp: What Serial Abuses Are They Hiding?'

A privately operated 1,000-bed detention facility in Newark held about 300 detainees and denied entry to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and members of the congressional delegation. The delegation cited concerns about alleged medical neglect, deteriorating living conditions, and a hunger strike inside the facility. The host criticized the Trump administration for refusing lawmakers access and characterized the sites as internment camps or concentration camps. The host claimed reporting indicated detainees were being kept there improperly and that private owners were paid per day, creating incentives to prolong detention. The host called for lawmakers barred from such facilities to stop funding and refuse legislation until access is granted.

"Sherrill was turned away on Monday after arriving with members of New Jersey's congressional delegation at Newark's Delaney Hall detention center, a privately operated 1,000-bed facility currently holding roughly 300 detainees. The delegation cited mounting concerns over alleged medical neglect and deteriorating living conditions that sparked a hunger strike inside the facility."

"Opening Tuesday morning's show, Scarborough unloaded on the administration for refusing lawmakers' entry while slamming the detention facilities as internment camps. It remains extraordinary that governors of states, that United States senators, that members of congress who actually fund what many people inside are calling concentration camps I think really internment camps certainly do fit that they can't get in, he began."

"The host then claimed that, per reporting, people are being kept in the facilities that shouldn't be held there and were being held because the private owners were being paid by the day to hold detainees. So the longer they hold people, even if those people are held illegally, well, the more money they make, Scarborough said."

"The host then demanded that congressional lawmakers barred from such facilities should fund nothing and refuse to pass a single bill until they are granted entry. If we can do that about Medicare and Social Security, we can do that about human beings who are being brutali"

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