Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
Even as all these local residents all over the country and all these different kinds of places are all pushing back against the Trump administration's efforts to build new camps, to build ICE prison camps and ICE facilities in their towns and cities, even as that happens.
Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
Something really, really remarkable happened this weekend inside one of the camps they've already built, inside one of the largest immigration prisons in the country.
Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
We learned it was happening when a lawyer named Eric Lee arrived at one of these camps, at what they call the South Texas Family Residential Center in South Texas, in Dilley, Texas.
Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
The Associated Press used a drone to capture these remarkable images of this, effectively, prison camp, this detention facility, and the protest within it.
Maddow: Trump in retreat as disastrous anti-immigrant campaign becomes political catastrophe
According to what lawyer Eric Lee was later able to learn from people inside, he says the prisoners had heard about the huge protest and general strike in Minneapolis on Friday, and they wanted to support it all the way down in South Texas behind prison walls.