'They're Coming For The Rest Of Us': Jon Stewart Nods Along As Maddow Comes Unglued Over Trump 'Mega-Prisons'

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'They're Coming For The Rest Of Us': Jon Stewart Nods Along As Maddow Comes Unglued Over Trump 'Mega-Prisons' MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart on Monday's The Daily Show…

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart on Monday's The Daily Show that if President Trump gets the giant warehouse prisons his administration has sought for immigrants, they won't stay immigrant-only for long.

"With a president like this, if you give him seven to ten prisons around the country that hold 10,000 people each, where he can hold people without trial, without access to lawyers indefinitely, you think he's only going to leave immigrants in there?" Maddow asked. "I just don't. I think that what they first do to immigrants, they want to do to the rest of us."

The exchange started with the Department of Homeland Security's plan to turn a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia, into a detention center for up to 10,000 people, which DHS dropped in June after the city fought it. Stewart said many of the people being held were in for what are usually treated as civil matters. "These are not the worst of the worst. These are people who overstayed a student visa or are here on a green card but got a parking ticket."

Maddow added people who came in under temporary protected status, saying the administration "basically illegalized people who had never done anything illegal in their life." Then she told Stewart that treating detention as an immigration issue misses the point: "We think about it as a special class of behavior by the government that's just for immigrants. And we think, therefore, oh, you either care about immigrants or you don't. No, I'm sorry."

White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News that "Jon Stewart is a talentless hack who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain and ruined his life." Former RNC spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko said the pair were conflating immigrants with illegal immigrants, adding that legal immigrants "are not targets for deportation or arrest by immigration officers. Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart both know that."

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