Dem rep in pink cowboy hat calls for anti-GOP uprising over Florida ICE detention center conditions

A Democratic congresswoman urged Americans to hit the streets, flood Republican lawmakers with “threatening” calls, and cause an “uprising” over the conditions at a Florida ICE detention center — all while clad in a full pink suit and flower-adorned cowboy hat.Rep.Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Detention Center in Miami on Thursday before holding a news conference on Instagram Live to tell reporters that federal authorities were planning to erect a “tent city” to expand the number of detainees at the facility.Wilson said she blamed the Laken Riley Act, the bill signed by President Trump in January that required the detention of illegal immigrants charged with certain crimes — including burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting — for the crackdown.“The Laken Riley Act has caused an increase in detainees, and these are people who have … you could have been here forever,” Wilson said.She said illegal immigrants can be arrested for “walking across the street, jaywalking, or shoplifting, they will detain you and bring you right here.”“So I’ve been giving out the phone numbers to the House of Representatives and to the Senate,” she said.

“It’s one number that number you call and you threaten it, and you say, ‘This is wrong.This is not America.

This is not what we stand for.We need a change.’ You have to do that.

It’s going to take the people.We’ve done it,” Wilson said.“We need the people.

We needed an uprising where people are taking to the streets and the phones, and writing letters.That’s what we need,” she told reporters.

During her visit, the Dem lawmaker and fervent opponent of President Trump said she expected to see criminals “tattooed with gold teeth.”Instead, Wilson, 82, said she was met with “hardworking men” and not “dangerous people.”Wilson also alleged federal immigration authorities pulled a cover-up to hide the true conditions at the fac...