We want to help good immigrants but don't have the capacity. This is what happens when other countries aren't as open as us.

Alligator Alcatraz doesn't need to be justified. Break the law, spit in our face, pay the price. Heck, prisoners there are living better than a lot of our veterans. If I was broke and living in Florida, I'd be happier there then on the street. It gets hot enough in summer to die of heat strok, cold enough in winter to die of hypothermia, and you can die of dehydration and starvation anywhere. Thanks to our tax dollars, even the scumbags who end up here aren't dying of any of those things

The facilities have improved, but the way ICE is selecting and treating their detainees needs to change. They already took care of the bad actors(gang members and those with felony charges) among undocumented people in the first round of deportations. Now they're treating those with minor charges or no charges the same way, which isn't that fair to me. Many Americans are starting to change their mind on ICE. Like any government department, it needs checks and balances, otherwise it can turn sour even if it was formed with good intentions.

A bunk for everyone? Or to double the usage of square footage?

There's slight difference between something hastily put together literally overnight to facilitate an emergency and another built with more permanence in mind to warehouse prisoners for profit.

Further, the question isn't what was over a decade ago, but how this compares to what was made by Trump himself in two separate terms.