Rachel Maddow

3,000 people there now, they want their new prison camps to be closer to 10,000 people.

How do you think those facilities are gonna be run?

If they build them, they will fill them up.

And yes, maybe they will use them for immigration detention now, whatever that is, their prison camps.

But if history tells us anything, it tells us that once facilities like this are built in these kinds of numbers, once you get an archipelago of facilities like this built in numbers like this, yeah, they may start as immigration detention, but they're available to them indefinitely for whatever they want to do with those camps.

And so you see something that has been mostly flying under the radar of the national media, but may absolutely be key to our destiny as a nation.

Everywhere they are trying to build these things, including in the reddest states in the country, everywhere people are pulling out all the stops to prevent these camps from being built.

And I have to tell you, if the country stops them from building them, they will never again have this kind of momentum to try to build a constellation of prison camps this large outside the reach of the law.

I mean, why would we give this government that kind of power, that kind of tool to use indefinitely?

We are seeing continued, rolling, huge anti-ICE protests everywhere now.

And it's not just old folks.

And it's not just young folks.

It's old folks and young folks and everybody in between.

Just in Los Angeles, three straight days of three really big days of anti-ICE, anti-Trump protests in that city.

Also outside the sheriff's office in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Also Indianapolis, Indiana, in the snow.

And Westerville, Ohio, in the snow.

We saw bike rides to honor Alex Preddy, who was killed by Trump's agents in the streets of Minneapolis.

Bike rides for Alex Preddy in Minneapolis, and in New York City, and in Austin, and in Boise, and in Denver, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and many, many, many more.

Protests inside the Target stores in Minneapolis.