What I’m Reading:

The Administration—Stephen Miller and others—are already calling on other red states to do the same. The federal government would give these states money, in part, to open these facilities. And the money is largely coming from FEMA’s budget. We’re seeing flash floods all across the country, including the devastation in Texas. But FEMA has basically been gutted in its capacity to deal with those sorts of things, and instead money from FEMA is being used to help stand up these facilities.

— Erin Neil / “The Shame of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’” / The New Yorker Daily