In an ABC News interview, Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialist running to flip a Florida Senate seat, says Moody approved emergency funds for the detention site, spending over a billion taxpayer dollars meant for natural disasters. Citing an inspector general report, Nixon says detainees were shackled in cages the size of telephone booths without water or restroom breaks. She also recounts a Cuban American woman who told her that her detained father had a stroke after being denied insulin.
The receipt
- Who
- Angie Nixon
- Where
- interview - ABC News
- Original footage
- ABC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 52 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
I mean, look, we had my opponent, Ashley Moody, who OK'd the use of emergency funds to stand up a modern day internment camp called Alligator Alcatraz, where they spent over a billion dollars of our taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go towards ensuring we had resources in time of a natural disaster. And instead, according to an inspector general report, They locked up people in cages the sizes of telephone booths without water breaks, without restroom breaks, while they were shackled. I spoke with a Cuban American woman whose dad was detained and put in alligator Alcatraz who had a stroke because they would not even provide him with his insulin. That is what they care about people. They don't, right? They don't care. Cruelty is the point in this moment.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.