Monday on Mobile’s FM Talk 106.5’s “Mobile Mornings,” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) argued against the housing of migrants at the abandoned U.S. Navy airstrips in Baldwin County.
Byrne noted he and other Baldwin County public officials faced a similar challenge when the Obama administration attempted to house migrants there once before.
Byrne explained to FM Talk 106.5’s Sean Sullivan why such a proposal is still a bad idea.
“Once again, the Department of Homeland Security under a different administration wants to put 25,000 adults and potentially children as well out there in these fields,” Byrne said. “No utilities — which means no water, no electricity. So obviously there’s nothing out there, so they’ll just have to put them in tents. It’s very hot, very humid. You know, bugs, snakes and hurricanes potentially.”
“It makes absolutely no sense, particularly coming off a week when we spent the week talking about how inhumane it was for us to separate children from their parents,” he continued. “I can’t imagine anything more inhumane than putting people out there in sort of those vacant areas where those strips are in the middle of summer, in the middle of hurricane season. It makes absolutely no sense.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and is the editor of Breitbart TV.
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