Rachel Maddow

And there's different forms of leverage available for

various facilities of these kinds, right?

If they want to build them on military bases or in other facilities they've already got federal control of, there's little leverage to be able to stop them from building those facilities.

Once they've built them or they got those facilities open, people absolutely can still show up and protest the heck out of those facilities, which you have seen even just over the last few days.

For example, at the gates of the prison camp in Dilley, Texas,

In Dilley, Texas, they're holding men, women, and children there.

Dilley, Texas, is where the prisoners themselves revolted inside the facility in peaceful protests last week, reportedly when they heard about the protests nationwide over what had happened in Minneapolis.

Dilley, Texas, is where five-year-old Liam Ramos was sent from Minneapolis before a judge this weekend ordered him and his father freed and sent home.

But Dilley is where hundreds of other kids are still being held.

And, where there is now, the government admits, a measles outbreak.

Oh, good.

People have been protesting regularly at the gates of Dilley, now, in Texas.

People have also been protesting regularly at Fort Bliss, at Camp East Montana, where at least three people have died in just the past two months, including one man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the local medical examiner.

I mean, in the existing prison camps they've got, Trump is already holding more than 73,000 people right now, which is a record.

They want to build 16 new processing facilities and seven new huge warehouse facility camps.

If they build those, if they can build those 23 new facilities that they've said they want to build in these communities that I've been describing all over the country, if they can build those 23 new facilities, that'll give them the space to more than double the number of people they're holding in the camps.

The biggest one they've got right now holds about 3,000 people.

That's the one at Fort Bliss where three people have died in the past eight weeks.

Again, about 3,000 people are there now.

There's already people regularly dying there.