The South Jersey military base, which will become a deportation center for undocumented immigrants, won a modern and unrestricted nickname: “Garden State Gulag”.
Rep. The coat of arms of Conawa Jr., a democrat, whose district of Burlington, now contains the so-called common base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, where the object will be created, invented Sobriquet in a statement on Monday. He sits on the House Veterans Committee.
“First, they did”Aligator Alcatraz” – said Conaway, referring to the controversial new detention center in Florida Everglades.” Now it is Garden State Gulag … [which] I oppose … in the strongest possible conditions. “
The modern fee for a common base is part of Trump’s administration effort to remove undocumented immigrants. Over time, the Trump’s administration shows that not all Americans are on board. IN CNN probe For example, on Sunday, for example, 55% of Americans surveyed said that the president “went too far” when it comes to the deportation of “immigrants living in the US illegally”, 10 points from February.
On Monday, it was unclear when the detainees began to be transported to a common base.
By awarding a new mission at the base on Friday, the Trump administration raised some people in Garden, who said on Monday that they did not like to be associated with the collection of immigrants for deportation.
“We are a nation of immigrants, and our immigration system should be rooted in honesty, not fear”, Troy Singleton Burlington said in a statement on Monday. “Our military installations … should not be politicized or used to sit fear or division.”
Others support the proposed deportation center.
“The policy of open borders under the rule of President Biden led to an unjustified situation,” he said Senator of State Latham TiverIN A Republican, whose 8th district includes Burlington Flame. He is a member of the Committee of Military Affairs and Veterans.
“I don’t pretend to have all the answers about the deportation,” said Tiver in a statement, adding that he still has confidence in those who serve in a common base.
He came to the conclusion that “highly talented people who can deal with any situation thrown on them with credibility and humanity.”
On Monday in Pemberton Township, where there is most of the common base Located people were confused and were afraid that the longtime neighbor was participating in a new undertaking.
“The federal government has the right to do what it wants in its own property, but I do not think that it should be in my yard, five miles from my house,” said 21 -year -old Alexander Costa, a senior at the University of Rowan, studying justice in criminal matters. He said that not because he was afraid of immigrants, but because the proximity of such an object can be seen as “afront”.
Costa called the partial reasons for the common base “irritable entity”. Yes, he added, the federal government should prosecute and force undocumented criminals among us.
“But”, he continued – after you take brutal people, there must be a better way than imprisoning other people in a military base. “
Many of what Costa said that the thicket with a statement of five democratic commissioners of the unit, who on Friday claimed in a statement that “overzealous” deportation efforts “cause fear and division and … [have] Lack of space in our federal military installations or in Burlington. “
During lunch in the town of about 27,000 people in Pine Barrens on Monday Elizabeth McCartney, a 63 -year -old nurse and a former teacher, was unambiguous in her condemnation of the latest custody.
“I am against the whole idea of stopping immigrants,” she said, “and the whole concept that our country will do it.”
McCartney, who has lived in Pemberton Township since 1969, said that she remembered when the joint base undertook a humanitarian mission of people escaping from the conflict.
In 2021, among the cluttered evacuation of Kabul, when Afghanistan fell on the Taliban, the base was one of eight American military installations, which served as “safe noses” for evacuated war allies and their families. The camp was basically a miniature town behind the gates and fences, home for 3377 families.
“Some of these Afghan children came to school in our town,” said McCartney. “I remember they fit well.”
