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Florida elected officials were finally let into<\/a> \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d on Saturday after President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> immigration enforcement had, for several days, locked representatives out. The group of Democrats and Republicans weren\u2019t allowed to take any photos or videos to document the conditions inside, which Representative Maxwell Alejandro Frost<\/strong> described as \u201chorrible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese are people being caged,\u201d Frost, a Democrat and the first Gen Z congressional representative, explained in a video he posted<\/a> to social media shortly after leaving. \u201cIt was very hot and warm within the actual tent where the cages are held.\u201d The representative said that people were yelling out to them, \u201chelp me! Help me! I heard someone in the back yell, \u2018I\u2019m a US citizen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz<\/strong>, a Democrat from South Florida who also toured the facility, said the detainees were subject to \u201creally disturbing, vile conditions\u201d and called for Alligator Alcatraz to be shut down. \u201cThis place is a stunt,\u201d Schultz added, \u201cand they\u2019re abusing human beings here.\u201d<\/p>\n After being denied entry to the facility since its opening over a week ago, elected officials were finally able to go on a supervised tour of the hastily constructed, 3,000-bed center that sits on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. According<\/a> to Politico, at least five members of Congress and roughly 20 state legislators were on the tour\u2014enough people that they were split into multiple groups.<\/p>\n