Alligator Alcatraz is now open!

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports that migrants will arrive today, and so will the President. Rory also reports on Votearama!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six forty six, Mike Elliott, Columbus This Morning News to
spend a moment or two with Rory O'Neil NBC News
Radio on the Legacy Retirement Group dot Com bone line. Rory,
the vote rama is underway as the Senate ponders the
Big Beautiful Bill. Where do we stand at this point?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, they're still at it. They work through the night
and in the vote rama, essentially senators can propose amendments
that then get a quick vote. That's quick in air
quotes there quick by Senate standards, and you know some
of them are I think they passed to maybe three
of them so far in this vote rama, most fail.
One of the ones that passed so does strip away

(00:38):
the language that would have prevented states from passing AI
legislation for the next decade. So that's just been stripped
out of the Senate version again, the one Big Beautiful Bill.
After the Senate approves it has to go back to
the House for their approval. And it only passed the
House with one vote to spare. And the Senate's making
a lot of big changes, not all of them are
sitting well with House members.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Do you think our founding fathers had the term voter
rama in their head when they were setting everything.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Up to it anyway, Yeah, is this anyway to run
the biggest, most powerful country in the world. I mean,
my goodness, a bunch of eighty five year.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Old men sounds like a county fair and the voter rama. Hey,
real quick. The President is headed to the Alligator Alcatraz
and the Florida Everglades today. Check that out. What's the
latest there.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, we believe the first migrants are going to arrive
there today. So Air Force one is expected to land
right there at this airstrip that's in the middle of
the Florida Everglades. The Governor of Florida is putting FEMA
in charge or I'm sorry, the state Emergency Management Agency
in charge of setting up this facility to house at
least a thousand migrants ahead of their deportation flights out

(01:51):
of the country. A bit controversial, you know, the human
rights issues in terms of the conditions that they'll be
state in intense in the hot Everglades, mosquitoes, et cetera.
Then you know, they call it a great natural boundary
surrounded by alligators and pythons. But they also say it's
efficient being attached to an airstrip that could take flights

(02:13):
directly out of there to send people back to their
native countries.