A.G. Gancarski
Cleanup continues from across the Atlantic Ocean in the wake of Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan’s comments that former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy would lead to “concentration camps.”
But while Deegan acknowledges the impact of her words on some listeners, the Kamala Harris supporter isn’t backing down from the central premise about the former and potentially future leader of the free world and what he might do to undocumented immigrants if he becomes President for a second time.
The first-term Democratic chief executive of the state’s largest city started off her provided quote with amelioration. “Anyone who knows me, has listened to me speak, or watched my actions, knows I would never diminish the unique awfulness and horror that was the Holocaust. That was not my intention. I regret that my choice of words may have caused anyone pain.”
Then she moved on to again contextualize her remarks, saying she has “no regret about calling out the inhumanity of treating immigrants, or any person, as less than human.”
“The inevitable human rights violations that would result from rounding up people for mass deportation is unthinkable and un-American. I work hard every day to build unity in our city and I want the same for our country,” Deegan said, adding that her remarks afford an “opportunity to learn from each other and continue to build a city where everyone is valued, seen and heard.”
The Mayor, in London on the taxpayer dime on what is being presented as a trade mission in conjunction with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ barnstorming, riled local Republicans when she waded into the immigration debate an interview with Times Radio earlier this week. Deegan said Trump would put “people in what would really amount to a concentration camp-type situation to round them out of the country.”
“What would we call them? If you’re rounding people up and putting them in camps?” Deegan responded. “What would we call those? It’s a concentration of people that are in a camp. I’m not suggesting anything beyond that, but I just think it seems rather inhumane to me.”
She went on to double down on the Trump denunciation, saying “human rights abuses” would be “inevitable.”
“When you flat out call a group of human beings animals and say they are poisoning the blood of our country, then promise to round them up in detention camps, what would lead anyone to believe that they would be treated humanely?”
Deegan’s political enemies have made hay of this, including numerous local and state elected officials, the Republican Party of Florida, and a spokesperson for the former President who called on the “no-name Mayor” to resign.
The Jaguars’ final London game of the season is Sunday, where the team will either get its second win or sixth loss of the season.
But even when they lose, they win: NFL owners approved the stadium financing deal that will see close to a billion dollars poured into renovations of the Jaguars’ domestic home, in what is being billed as necessary to keep the franchise in town and as a revitalization of the area around the stadium and downtown.
13 comments
Bobble head Kammy
October 18, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Blonde bimbo Donna. Why don’t you offer up your city to house these migrants? Watch your constituents lose their minds. Put up or shut up blondie.
MHDuuuval
October 18, 2024 at 1:27 pm
Running scared: “Trump canceled yet another appearance, this one with the National Rifle Association in Savannah, Georgia, scheduled for October 22, where he was supposed to be the keynote speaker.”
MHDuuuval
October 19, 2024 at 11:08 am
DJT now comparing the lengthy internment and dispossession of West Coast Japanese Americans during WWII with the J6 rioters in prison.
Joe
October 18, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Trump/Project25’s deportation plans would necessarily involve concentration camps for the thousands/millions of being taken from their homes and rounded up for deportation processing. That is literally what concentration camps are.
Bobble head Kammy
October 18, 2024 at 2:46 pm
So you are in favor of Kammy’s open border policy?
Polly Is a Cracker
October 18, 2024 at 4:00 pm
“I regret that my choice of words may have caused anyone pain.
Then she moved on to again contextualize her remarks. . .”
Just another example of poli-speak: “I’m sorry but not really.” JAX needs a mayor who is better at the job.
Otoh
October 18, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Ridiculous! What should she have called the camps where Trump plans to hold the people he says he will round up for deportation? No one has offered a better word…
MHDuuuval
October 18, 2024 at 9:17 pm
“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump compared the detention of his supporters who have been charged or convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the mass imprisonment of people of Japanese descent without charges during World War II.” Isaac Arnsdorf, WaPo, Oct. 18, 2024
Frankie M.
October 18, 2024 at 5:43 pm
AG was in rare form this morning all up on his high horse. I haven’t seen him this animated since the Jags dropped a game in London. (He’s a huuuge Jags fan.) How dare Donna Deegan call out evil when asked about it! She needs to stick to the script especially if she’s on the taxpayer dime whatever that means.
MHDuuuval
October 18, 2024 at 9:50 pm
Not his best performance on Stereo 90.
the Truth
October 18, 2024 at 7:32 pm
Deegan really showed Unity when she removed a statue of a woman earlier this year.. she is a one term mayor, panders to the gays, trans, and freaks, etc …
ScienceBLVR
October 18, 2024 at 9:29 pm
Donna is absolutely correct! Think that cr@p won’t happen here?
Executive Order 9066
1942. “This order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to “relocation centers” further inland—resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans.mmTwo-thirds of the 125,000 people displaced were U.S. citizens.
MHDuuuval
October 18, 2024 at 9:38 pm
There was concertina wire and towers with riflemen surrounding the camps. Most internees had property in houses and businesses and farms sold for little or nothing before leaving.
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