For Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is “legendary.”

“This is a facility that’s notorious,” she said, as she stood beside Gov. Jeff Landry to unveil the “Louisiana Lockup” for ICE detainees in a disused wing of the prison that was once used to punish misbehaving inmates with solitary confinement.

“That’s a message that these individuals that are going to be here that are illegal criminals need to understand,” Noem continued. “If you come into this country and you victimize someone, if you take away their child forever, if you traffic drugs and kill our next generation of Americans, and if you traffic our children and men and women absolutely there’s consequences. You’re going to end up here.”

That message ought to convince people to s

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