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Rhiannon12866

(241,941 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:30 AM Friday

Closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' can continue, judge rules - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale



An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as the state and federal governments fight that decision. - Aired on 08/28/2025.
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Closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' can continue, judge rules - WPLG Local 10 Miami-Fort Lauderdale (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Friday OP
Where was DOGE when this idea was planned? They should have known this was a waste of money? Escurumbele Friday #1
Trump feels entitled to spend as much as he wants for his whims and desires. Irish_Dem Friday #2
Excellent point, we keep hearing that TFG is against "foreign" students at American universities Rhiannon12866 Friday #3
Wasted resources The Wizard Friday #4

Escurumbele

(3,873 posts)
1. Where was DOGE when this idea was planned? They should have known this was a waste of money?
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:06 AM
Friday

So much corruption in so little time.

Something that, if true, no one is talking about is the idea trump has to bring 600,000 "Chinese Students". Does anyone really believe these are "students"? In no time these "students" will have green cards, and will be made citizens by some "special provision" for them to vote for republicans.

I have mentioned before that what happened in a country like Venezuela is nothing but a blueprint for other countries to implement. Chavez, when he was alive and in power, took an unknown number of "Chinese something" to Venezuela. Because the Chavez regime gave no qualms about the law, these people were given automatic citizenship that allowed them to vote for Chavez. In Chavez defense, if any can be given, this trick was first used by one of the most corrupt "Democratic" president Venezuela ever had, a man who went from policeman, low middle class to one of the wealthiest people in Venezuela, Carlos Andres Perez. Perez took people from Colombia, China, and other countries to Venezuela, gave them citizenship papers and had them vote for him and his cronies, it is a trick Chavez decided to implement as well. Well, the trump administration has looked at that blueprint and seems to want to implement it.

As always, I hope I am wrong but, someone better look into it, Democrats need to stop it.

Think about this, trump and his gang are going after universities, they are slowly but surely dismantling the Dept. of Education, destroying education in the USA, and now they want to bring 600,000 "Chinese Students"? For what purpose? In my opinion, it is not to study.

Irish_Dem

(73,780 posts)
2. Trump feels entitled to spend as much as he wants for his whims and desires.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:18 AM
Friday

It's the rest of us who have to live on a shoestring.

Rhiannon12866

(241,941 posts)
3. Excellent point, we keep hearing that TFG is against "foreign" students at American universities
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:29 AM
Friday

And by prohibiting them, American universities are losing money, let alone the power to admit the best and the brightest who are likely to remain in the U.S. All I can think of is that TFG is attempting to curry favor with Xi Jinping who we keep hearing has developed a strategic partnership with Putin. And I certainly agree that this is dangerous move.

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