Florida Dems Chair Nikki Fried Slams Governor Ron DeSantis on Plans to Open Another Inhumane Detention Facility

Today, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried condemned Governor Ron DeSantis for announcing the opening of yet another wildly expensive and inhumane immigration detention facility paid for by Florida’s taxpayers.

“Ron DeSantis is using taxpayer dollars to bankroll yet another inhumane detention camp in the middle of the panhandle. There is already an immigration Detention Center in Baker County that is notorious for its reprehensible treatment of detainees, and a second facility promises more of the same.

These inhumane facilities reward massive, taxpayer-funded no-bid contracts to politically connected businesses and corporate elite donors. DeSantis is funneling millions of tax dollars from the working and middle class to fill the pockets of the wealthy at the expense of immigrants who have come to our State seeking a better life for their families”. 

Floridians want their tax dollars going toward real solutions like fixing the insurance crisis, expanding Medicaid, funding public schools, and building affordable housing, not lining the pockets of corporate donors getting rich off of detention camps.” 

Like so many harmful policies, this corrupt and inhumane scheme of state-sponsored suffering will be exported from Florida to the rest of America unless we put an end to it right now.