{"id":2397582,"date":"2025-01-31T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-if-dads-opening-guantanamo-for-illegals-why-not-alcatraz-too\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:21:30","slug":"don-jr-if-dads-opening-guantanamo-for-illegals-why-not-alcatraz-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-if-dads-opening-guantanamo-for-illegals-why-not-alcatraz-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Jr: If Dad&#8217;s Opening Guantanamo for Illegals, Why Not Alcatraz, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-jr-if-dads-opening-guantanamo-for-illegals-why-not-alcatraz-too%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2397582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u2062 discusses a recent announcement by President donald Trump regarding a plan to utilize the Guantanamo bay\u2063 military detention\u2063 facility for housing the\u2064 most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-aims-to-boost-border-securitys-criminal-unit-amid-surge-in-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"Congress Aims To Boost Border Security\u2019s Criminal Unit Amid Surge in Illegal Immigration\">violent illegal immigrants<\/a>.\u2062 This announcement was addressed in a post by Donald Trump Jr. on social media, where he cheekily suggested reopening Alcatraz as well. \u200cThe \u2064president \u200dstated \u200cthat the facility at Guantanamo can\u2064 accommodate 30,000 \u200cdetainees, emphasizing\u2062 the need to detain perilous criminals who pose \u200ba threat to \u2063the\u200d american public. The article reflects on\u2064 the seriousness of this announcement and\u200d highlights the\u200b potential implications of\u2062 such a policy, reiterating Trump\u2019s commitment to mass deportation. Additionally, it addresses the ancient context of Alcatraz, which\u2062 has not\u2063 housed \u200bprisoners as 1963, and underscores the irony \u200dof considering its\u2062 reopening. Ultimately, the article conveys that while Trump Jr.\u2019s comment \u2062may\u2063 have been a jest, it\u2064 nevertheless indicated the management&#8217;s serious stance\u2063 on immigration and security issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whether phrased as straightforward or with his trademark cheekiness, President Donald Trump never says anything publicly without a clear purpose.<\/p>\n<p>His son, Donald Trump Jr., has probably inherited that same quality of conveying serious purpose through occasional cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday on the social media platform X, Trump Jr. responded to his father&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-announces-plans-send-worst-criminal-migrants-guantanamo-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> that the federal government would use the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house the most violent illegal alien deportees by suggesting that the president reopen another famous prison for the same purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now this is a great idea. Maybe we should also reopen Alcatraz?!?!&rdquo; Trump Jr. wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday, the president made the Guantanamo Bay announcement.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today I&rsquo;m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-plans-to-send-worst-criminal-migrants-to-guantanamo-bay\/\" title=\"Trump Announces Plans to Send &#039;Worst&#039; Criminal Migrants to Guantanamo Bay\">000-person migrant facility<\/a> at Guantanamo Bay,&rdquo; Trump said in a clip posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most people don&rsquo;t even know about it,&rdquo; the president added. &ldquo;We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-preparing-to-send-30000-illegal-immigrants-to-gitmo-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump preparing to send 30,000 illegal immigrants to Gitmo - Washington Examiner\">worst criminal illegal aliens threatening<\/a> the American people. Some of them are so bad, we don&rsquo;t even trust the countries to hold them because we don&rsquo;t want them coming back. So we&rsquo;re gonna send them out to Guantanamo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr. d the 30-second clip of his father&rsquo;s announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now this is a great idea. Maybe we should also reopen Alcatraz?!?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/70dUlZVHvA\">https:\/\/t.co\/70dUlZVHvA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1884765687719059848?\">January 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So why might Trump Jr.&rsquo;s &ldquo;Alcatraz&rdquo; comment qualify as a cheeky suggestion with a serious purpose?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco, California, setting for the 1979 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/ls062523363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blockbuster<\/a> film &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape from Alcatraz<\/a>&rdquo; starring legendary actor Clint Eastwood, had a reputation as an inescapable maximum-security facility.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/alca\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. National Park Service<\/a>, however, currently operates Alcatraz as a tourist attraction. It has not housed prisoners since 1963, when Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parksconservancy.org\/our-work\/alcatraz-glance#:~:text=1963%3A%20Due%20to%20high%20costs,federal%20penitentiary%20in%20Marion%2C%20Ill.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permanently closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it would be ironic (and highly unlikely) if an administration that potentially will include Kennedy&rsquo;s son, Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rfk-jr-gets-great-confirmation-news-hearing-draws-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/a>, were to reopen the prison.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Jr., therefore, almost certainly did not mean his comment literally, but he did mean to signal the administration&rsquo;s seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the president has wasted no time in commencing his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">long-promised mass-deportation operation<\/a>. Border czar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tom-homans-quote-week-joy-reid-dumber-box-rocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Homan<\/a> and the brave Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have taken the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Trump has Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/demotion-mark-milley-hegseth-rips-away-credentials-security-last-pic-pentagon-may-take-1-star-official-demotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> and Secretary of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-sweeps-nyc-immediately-scores-big-win-infamous-suspect-taken-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristi Noem<\/a> in place to faithfully execute his order.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, remember: The president does nothing without a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, for instance, that in September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-releases-disturbing-news-illegal-immigrant-murderers-rapists-worst-possible-time-kamala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE gave Congress<\/a> data regarding illegal migrants who had criminal convictions and pending charges. The total number of undetained migrants who fit that description approached 650,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions,&rdquo; Fox News reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Note the more than 13,000 homicide convictions and nearly 16,000 sexual assault convictions. Did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-vows-invoke-1798-law-handle-illegals-part-largest-deportation-operation-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> not say for months on the campaign trail that he would rid the country of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ann-coulter-dem-nightmare-what-if-the-war-ends-before-november\/\" title=\"Ann Coulter: Dem Nightmare: What if the War Ends Before November?\">illegal alien murderers<\/a> and rapists? That number looks awfully close to 30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that he intends to use Guantanamo as a detention site for the worst of the worst. In light of the math, he almost certainly has those roughly 30,000 convicted murderers and rapists in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, he probably will not reopen Alcatraz. But Trump Jr.&rsquo;s comment left no doubt as to the administration&rsquo;s seriousness. 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His son, Donald Trump Jr., seems to share this trait of mixing serious messages with playful remarks. On Wednesday, he reacted on the social media platform X to his father&#8217;s declaration that the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay would be used for housing violent illegal deportees by suggesting reopening Alcatraz as well. &#8220;Now this is a great idea. Maybe we should also reopen Alcatraz?!?!\u201d he tweeted after sharing a clip of his father&#8217;s announcement about Guantanamo Bay&#8217;s 30,000-person capacity for detaining dangerous illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Trump emphasized that some individuals are so dangerous that their home countries cannot be trusted to keep them from returning to the U.S., hence the need for Guantanamo. While Trump Jr.&#8217;s mention of Alcatraz was likely not meant literally, it served to underscore the administration&#8217;s seriousness regarding immigration enforcement and mass deportation efforts led by officials like Tom Homan and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>The president has previously highlighted alarming statistics about undocumented migrants with criminal records\u2014nearly 650,000 individuals\u2014including over 13,000 convicted of homicide and almost 16,000 for sexual assault\u2014aligning closely with Trump&#8217;s goal of targeting such offenders through his policies. Although reopening Alcatraz is improbable, Trump Jr.&#8217;s comment clearly indicated that if necessary, even such notorious facilities could be considered in their approach to handling crime related to illegal immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2397583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alcatraz.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49595,35303,4034],"class_list":["post-2397582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alcatraz","tag-don-jr","tag-guantanamo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Alcatraz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397586,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397582\/revisions\/2397586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}