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Zorro

(17,611 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 09:18 AM Tuesday

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' is just performative cruelty and Trump loyalty

Good luck finding some ‘merica-lovin’ MAGA guys willing to get off their recliners to do hard labor outside in the steamy Florida swamps, filling in for the hard-working young immigrants.

The idea of building a thousand-bed immigrant detention center in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve is an historical perversity.

In case you missed it, Florida’s recently appointed Attorney Gen. James Uthmeier announced that he wants to build the state’s biggest lockup for “criminal aliens” on a remote swath of swampland adjacent to the Florida Everglades.

Uthmeier says he envisions it as “Alligator Alcatraz” — Florida’s version of an inescapable prison.

“We don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter,” he said. “People get out, and there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.”

This is your basic moron chumming through performative cruelty, Florida's go-to posturing these days.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/06/24/florida-migrant-prison-trump-ice-raids-everglades/84317147007/
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Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' is just performative cruelty and Trump loyalty (Original Post) Zorro Tuesday OP
Sounds like a great timms139 Tuesday #1
Here's the latest from the New York Times, which also reported on it. It's not due to be open until July. ancianita Tuesday #2

timms139

(310 posts)
1. Sounds like a great
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 11:03 AM
Tuesday

place for them to build as we can send all these republican traitors and Trump to when we finally get to hold court and hold them all to account for the attempt to destroy this country .

ancianita

(40,770 posts)
2. Here's the latest from the New York Times, which also reported on it. It's not due to be open until July.
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 03:03 PM
Tuesday

So much is evil about this Nazi human trafficking and imprisonment in the Everglades during this HOT summer, I can't even begin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/florida-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-detention-center.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"... McLaughlin, the D.H.S. spokeswoman, said the goal is to have at least some of the tents up and running by July.

The Trump administration is currently holding about 55,000 immigrants, a spike from the end of the Biden administration, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement was holding about 40,000 people...

Immigrant advocates criticized the move, saying that it was creating a new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government. Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, said it amounted to an “independent, unaccountable detention system.”

Mr. Fleming added that there were a host of problems with the plan to hold migrants in tents at the airfield.

“The fact that the administration and its allies would even consider such a huge temporary facility,” he said, “on such a short time line, with no obvious plan for how to adequately staff medical and other necessary services, in the middle of the Florida summer heat is demonstrative of their callous disregard for the health and safety of the human beings they intend to imprison there.”

“It simply shocks the conscience,” Mr. Fleming said.

Immigrants are typically held by ICE officials in private prisons and local jails that offer space in their facilities for a certain amount of money.
Florida officials are going a step further: building a detention center specifically for immigrants picked up by the local authorities on behalf of the federal government. ICE could also use the facility to hold migrants picked up elsewhere in the country.

“I’m proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all,” Mr. Uthmeier said in a statement. “Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida facilities will do just that.”

The FEMA money will be drawn from a fund that was created during the Biden administration to pay organizations and local jurisdictions that help house and care for migrants going through the immigration court system in the United States...."


The Final Solution is to KILL immigrants and let SCOTUS have the last word. Just insert kill for fix in Uthmeier's statement:

“I’m proud to help support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all,” Mr. Uthmeier said in a statement. “Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida facilities will do just that.”

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